Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine – Brandon Sun
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Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’
An abridged trip through 500 years of papal and legal history to understand why Pope Francis faces calls to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, which underpins Europe’s heist of the Americas and a mass dispossession of Indigenous peoples that remains foundational to Canadian sovereignty
Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’
The statement is a response to decades of Indigenous demands for the Vatican to formally rescind the papal bulls that provided the Portuguese and Spanish kingdoms the religious backing to expand their territories in Africa and the Americas for the sake of spreading Christianity.