The Vatican says it has 'repudiated' the Doctrine of Discovery, saying the 15th-century papal decrees 'did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples.'
Sarain Fox, right, and Chelsea Brunelle of the Batchewana First Nation unfurled a banner reading "Rescind the Doctrine" outside the mass presided over by Pope Francis at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupre in Quebec.
It said the documents had been "manipulated" for political purposes by colonial powers "to justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesial authorities." It was cited as recently as a 2005 Supreme Court decision involving the Oneida Indian Nation written by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Vatican offered no evidence that the three 15th-century papal bulls had themselves been formally abrogated, rescinded or rejected, as Vatican officials have often said. But it cited a subsequent bull, Sublimis Deus in 1537, that reaffirmed that Indigenous peoples shouldn't be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, and were not to be enslaved.
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