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During Pope Francis’ 2022 visit to Canada, during which he apologized to Indigenous peoples for the residential school system, he was met with demands to renounce the papal bulls.
The Vatican has formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery.”
The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today.
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The statement from the Vatican marked a historic recognition of its own complicity in colonial-era abuses committed by European powers.
Vaticans says decrees ‘did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples’