Stay updated with breaking news from Inter Caetera. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The Vatican has rejected the 'Doctrine of Discovery' a year after Pope Francis met with First Nation, Meti and Inuit people from Canada, and apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the residential school system. The 15th-century doctrine expressed the idea that lands being coloniz...
Documents had been 'manipulated' for political purposes by colonial powers, said Vatican
The USCCB and CCCB, with the encouragement of the Vatican, are ‘exploring’ the establishment of an academic symposium for continued dialogue between indigenou...
A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples” and have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.
The “Doctrine of Discovery” is the leveraging of the idea of discovery to argue for and put into law a claim on and right to indigenous lands. It has no current and actively sustained legal connection.