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The Church may have repudiated the papal bulls used to justify European colonization of Africa and the Americas, but it wasn’t honest about its own role
The Catholic Church formally "repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political 'doctrine of discovery,'" a Vatican statement said.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican today responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the