In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church
…the five-hundred-year settler colonial project of assimilation and genocide-for-land, what responsibility does the Catholic Church bear? In the joint statement, some key talking points arise providing clues as to the Vatican’s answer to this question. The Vatican asserts, for example, that: assimilation policies and land dispossession were “promoted by the governmental authorities of the time”; the Doctrine of Discovery was a specifically politica…
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