No matter how hard the Vatican may try, it seems unlikely that the theological underpinnings of what came to be known as the “doctrine of discovery” can be avoided indefinitely.
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Peter C. Phan is the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought in the department of theology and religious studies at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.