Doctrine of Discovery

Amid Pope Francis' 'penitential' journey in Canada, Indigenous people and advocates are calling for the repudiation of the 'Doctrine of Discovery,' a ...

"That acknowledgment will be an important step towards moving towards true reconciliation. [It] was used as legal and moral justification for colonial dispossession of sovereign Indigenous Nations, including First Nations in what is now Canada." "It is really important for the Pope to acknowledge the role of the Doctrine of Discovery in colonialization and in the harm that has been done by the Catholic Church," Gunn said.

Scott Robertson, a senior associate at the law firm Nahwegahbow Corbiere and a former president of the Indigenous Bar Association, told The Hill Times that the ...

Moments before Pope Francis began leading mass at the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica outside Quebec City Thursday morning, two people made their way to the ...

A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. You need to talk about the root of everything," said Fox, who is from the Batchewana First Nation near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and whose aunt is a residential school survivor. But I feel the pain. In his speech Wednesday in Quebec City, the Pope said he wanted to express "deep shame and sorrow" for the residential school system in Canada, in which "local Catholic institutions had a part." I feel their pain." The protesters held up a large banner that read "Rescind the doctrine" with the Pope and other members of the clergy standing steps away.

Papal bulls written in the 15th century granted Catholic kings permission to colonize non-Christian lands and enslave the non-Christians.

Mr. Bruni added that though the reflection was “nearing the end of its conclusion,” it might not be concluded by the time of the pope’s visit to Canada and that he could not confirm whether the pope would say anything specific to the doctrine upon arrival in Canada. But, he added, “there ‘might’ be a development on this theme” after the papal trip. “We humbly and respectfully ask Pope Francis to lead us in formally repudiating the period of Christian history that used religion to justify political and personal violence against indigenous nations and peoples and their cultural, religious, and territorial identities.” And this was not the first time that Indigenous People had met with the pope at the Vatican to discuss the doctrine. “This particular doctrine has been used to justify both political and personal violence against Indigenous nations, Indigenous peoples and their culture—their religious and their territorial identities,” Bishop Douglas J. Lucia of Syracuse, N.Y., told Religion News Service in 2021. Their inclusion here is not intended as a debate over the rightness of the judgment but rather to show how a so-called doctrine established in three letters by 15th-century popes has come to bear on secular laws and affect Indigenous communities. The doctrine of discovery has been applied in many other cases and used internationally to legitimize governments’ ownership of land. Following the logic of the doctrine of discovery, the land belonged to those who discovered it and therefore the federal government rightly owned the land. Within less than three years, he would issue a similar decree, “Romanus Pontifex,” to the king of Spain. It would be almost four decades before Pope Alexander VI wrote “Inter Caetera” in 1493, which is the papal bull most often cited when referring to the doctrine. Many Indigenous Peoples in Canada appear to have received well the apology made by Pope Francis on the first day of his pilgrimage of penance in their lands. Why is it so important for the pope to make a public pronouncement to rescind this doctrine? It was the second Mass of his visit to Indigenous Peoples in Canada to apologize for the deplorable abuses committed over more than a century in residential schools under the Catholic Church’s watch. But as the apology—and the applause and shouts expressed each of the four times the pope said “I am sorry” in his speech on that day—begins to settle, Indigenous communities are finding space to reflect on that historic moment and digest its contents.

TRENTON, Canada. Two Indigenous women unfurled a large banner that demanded the pontiff "rescind the doctrine” as the basilica filled up in Quebec for a ...

Set up by the Canadian government beginning in the 1820s, 150,000 Indigenous children attended the schools, where a significant number of students were subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse and many contracted diseases. It was the second mass the pope celebrated during his six-day visit to Canada, which ends July 29. The last school closed in 1991.

Paul Dixon, 65, was among many activists in Quebec City this week imploring the Pope to denounce the Doctrine of Discovery, historically used to justify ...

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In her magisterium we find ancient and authoritative attestations affirming the dignity of Indigenous peoples, beginning with the famous ones of Paul III," said the article by Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the former papal spokesman. "We are mindful that Catholics were complicit in these systems," the bishops continued in the 2016 statement. You need to talk about the root of everything," which is the Doctrine of Discovery, Fox told CBC News. However, he said he was not certain that a statement would be completed before the papal trip ends or if the pope would speak about it while in Canada. "The attitudes and policies which deprived Indigenous people of their way of living on the land were closely related to those which assumed that it was good and appropriate to remove Indigenous children from their families and their own cultural system of education and place them in residential schools," the Canadian bishops said. (Photo: The Central Minnesota Catholic)

On Thursday, two Anishinaabe protesters unfurled a large banner reading “rescind the doctrine” just as Pope Francis was starting Mass. Their sign was a ...

Last night, 60 Indigenous leaders from across the country were invited to a dinner with the Catholic Conference of Canadian Bishops. According to the Conference ...

The National Indian Residential School Crisis Line also provides 24-hour crisis support to former Indian Residential School students and their families toll-free at 1 866 925 4419. 24 hour support is available for survivors and family members through the Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line at 1-800-721-0066. Calls for the Pope to rescind and denounce the Doctrine of Discovery intensified yesterday on the penultimate day of his trip to Canada.

On Thursday morning, at a meeting attended by Pope Francis at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beuvre, protesters demanded the withdrawal of the "doctrine.

According to Professor Felix Hoehn of the University of Saskatchewan Law School, there is no doubt that the doctrine of discovery is an integral part of Canadian law to this day, even if the court does not name it and rejects the relevant concept. Several bodies of the Catholic Church have rejected the detection theory, including the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops in a statement published in 2016. The seeds of the doctrine of discovery date back to a series of papal bulls of the XVe century According to Jean-François Roussel, a professor at the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Montreal, the Vatican’s message to colonial countries can be summed up as follows: “I give you the territories and everything in them, with permanent rights. “Pope Francis is the only one who can remove the papal bull, and the natives are asking for it,” he recalled. The doctrine of discovery was further codified in an 1823 United States Supreme Court decision, Johnson v. Among these events, we cite another papal bull in 1537 that recognized indigenous peoples as full human beings.