Doctrine of Discovery

The Vatican has formally repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, granting a key request that the Dene Nation and other Indigenous groups have made for years.

So the real need is to have the Doctrine of Discovery revoked completely.” The Vatican added that the doctrine was “not part of the teaching of the Catholic Church” but acknowledged that the papal bulls on which it was based “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples.” “We were never considered human beings.

The Vatican acknowledges that papal documents from the 15th century were used by colonial powers to give legitimacy to actions that were 'not part of ...

Cardinal Czerny said that the Bulls, which carried the Vatican seal, became invalid in the first half of the 16th century, when Pope Paul III’s Bull, “Sublimis Deus,” tried to protect Indigenous peoples from the colonial powers. The dicasteries closed their statement calling for a greater implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Church is also aware that the contents of these documents were manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples.” They also claimed that the Papal Bulls authorized European power to take control of non-Christian lands in the Americas and elsewhere. [apologized profusely for past abuses](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-pope-francis-apology-residential-schools-canada/), including the establishment of the largely Catholic residential school system that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their homes. In a joint statement issued Thursday, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, headed by Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, and the Dicastery for Culture and Education said that the Papal Bulls had never been expressions of Catholic faith.

The Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development have issued a Joint Statement addressing the ...

[a response to the Vatican document which can be found here](https://www.cccb.ca/letter/statement-by-the-permanent-council-of-the-canadian-conference-of-catholic-bishops-on-the-joint-statement-of-the-dicastery-for-culture-and-education-and-the-dicastery-for-promoting-integral-human-deve/). [The Vatican statement can be found here](https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/03/30/0238/00515.html). This has been a significant point of dialogue with Indigenous Peoples of this land as we continue our journey of healing and reconciliation.

A “Joint Statement” from the Dicastery for Culture and the Dicastery for Integral Human Development formally repudiates "those concepts that fail to ...

“Historical research clearly demonstrates that the papal documents in question, written in a specific historical period and linked to political questions, have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith,” the Statement declares. Thanks to dialogue with indigenous peoples, “the Church has acquired a greater awareness of their sufferings, past and present, due to the expropriation of their lands … These are legal acts by which these two Pontiffs authorized the Portuguese and Spanish sovereigns to seize property in colonized lands by subjugating the original populations.

Nearly 500 years after papal decrees were used to rationalize Europe's colonial conquests, the Vatican repudiated those decrees on Thursday, saying the ...

"What was significant today is the way that the statement repudiates the very mindsets and worldview that gave rise to the original papal bulls," McCallum said. "The call 'to walk side by side' is especially poignant in this land of the Onondaga and Haudenosaunee where there exists the 'Two Row Wampum,' " Lucia told NPR via email. The doctrine was laid out in a series of papal "bulls," or decrees; the first one was issued in 1452. The Church also said it stands with Indigenous peoples now and strongly supports the U.N. The papal bulls "were not considered valid just 30 to 40 years after they were first issued. Behn-Tsakoza welcomed the pope's action. David McCallum, executive director of the Program for Discerning Leadership based in Rome, told NPR. It has been cited in different arenas for centuries, including by the U.S. "Back in the in the 19th century, it was used as a precedent which gave people a sense of title to land that had not been owned with an official title in deed," McCallum said. "It renounces the mindset of cultural or racial superiority which allowed for that objectification or subjection of people, and strongly condemns any attitudes or actions that threaten or damage the dignity of the human person." "The statement repudiates the very mindsets and worldview that gave rise to the original papal bulls," the Rev. The doctrine was invoked as a legal and religious standing by Europeans who "discovered" new lands and violently seized it from people who had been living there for generations.

The Vatican's repudiation of what's known as the Doctrine of Discovery is welcome, but there is still a long way to go toward reconciliation with Indigenous ...

A bill aimed at harmonizing Canada's laws with the declaration [was passed in 2021](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/undrip-declaration-passes-senate-1.6068524). But so far Canada has not repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery. A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for survivors and those affected. In fact, he was not part of that delegation.Mar 30, 2023 1:53 PM CT Thank you to the Pope." The last of the residential schools in Canada closed in 1997, but the abuse students endured within them has had lasting physical and mental effects for generations. "This is kind of recognition, acknowledgement, and some sort of apology towards us," he said. but there has to be a fundamental change in attitudes, behaviour, laws and policies from that statement," Ernie Daniels, a former chief of Long Plain First Nation, told host Marcy Markusa in a Thursday interview with CBC Manitoba's Information Radio. Nonetheless, Thursday's gesture can begin the process for more healing, he said. Not much of us left. "The constitutions of those countries are built on the idea that Indigenous peoples are not human and you can simply take the lands with absolutely no regard for their rights or their land claims." Four countries in the world particularly — the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia — are based on the premise of the Doctrine of Discovery, and so officially rejecting it could lead to a "constitutional crisis," he said.

It said the documents had been “manipulated” for political purposes by colonial powers “to justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples that were carried out ...

It was significant that the repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery came during the pontificate of history’s first Latin American pope. A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for survivors and those affected. The Vatican offered no evidence that the three 15th-century papal bulls (Dum Diversas in 1452, Romanus Pontifex in 1455 and Inter Caetera in 1493) had themselves been formally abrogated, rescinded or rejected, as Vatican officials have often said. Two Indigenous women unfurled a banner at the altar of the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré on July 29 that read, “Rescind the Doctrine,” in bright red and black letters. It’s one of the root causes of why the relationship is so broken.” The Catholic Church therefore 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.'” “The church has done one thing, as it said it would do, for the Holy Father. “This news is something we’ve been waiting for,” he said. “This Note is part of what we might call the architecture of reconciliation and also the product of the art of reconciliation, the process whereby people commit to listening to each other, to speaking to each other and to growth in mutual understanding,” he said in a statement. Now the ball is in the court of governments, the United States and in Canada, but particularly in the United States where the doctrine is embedded in the law,” he said. “The Vatican seems to be washing its hands of its role in the whole colonization of our lands and to me it would be so simple to just accept the fact that they played a role,” he said. The statement was a response to decades of demands from Indigenous people for the Vatican to formally rescind the papal bulls that provided the Portuguese and Spanish kingdoms the religious backing to expand their territories in Africa and the Americas for the sake of spreading Christianity.

The Vatican has rejected the Doctrine of Discovery a year after Pope Francis met with Indigenous groups from Canada and delivered his first apology for the ...

The conference signed a statement calling for the church to reject principals associated with the doctrine in 2016. Throughout his stops in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut, people held signs and yelled for the Pope to reject the doctrine. The statement from the Vatican, however, said the doctrine is not part of the teachings of the church and the documents were "written in a specific historical period and linked to political questions." The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, of which Bolen is a member, said in a statement that it's grateful Indigenous organizations urged the move. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which investigated residential schools in Canada, said these bulls helped shape the political and legal arguments that became known as the Doctrine of Discovery. The Vatican has rejected the Doctrine of Discovery a year after Pope Francis met with Indigenous groups from Canada and apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system.

Last summer in Maskwacis, Alta., Pope Francis formally apologized for the Catholic Church's role in Canada's residential school system.

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During Pope Francis' 2022 visit to Canada, during which he apologized to Indigenous peoples for the residential school system, he was met with demands to ...

It was significant that the repudiation of the “Doctrine of Discovery” came during the pontificate of history’s first Latin American pope. The Catholic Church therefore 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.” Two Indigenous women unfurled a banner at the altar of the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré on July 29 that read: “Rescind the Doctrine” in bright red and black letters. It was issued while he was in the hospital Thursday with a respiratory infection. Those decrees underpin the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S. But who can get it?](https://globalnews.ca/news/9586724/pregnany-loss-paid-leave-federal-budget/)

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 ...

It was significant that the repudiation of the “Doctrine of Discovery” came during the pontificate of history’s first Latin American pope. David McCallum, an American Jesuit who has worked with Indigenous peoples in the Syracuse area and was consulted during the drafting of the statement. On Thursday, she called the Vatican statement “another step in the right direction,” but noted that it didn’t mention the rescinding of the bulls themselves. The Vatican offered no evidence that the three papal bulls (Dum Diversas in 1452, Romanus Pontifex in 1455 and Inter Caetera in 1493) had themselves been formally abrogated, rescinded or rejected, as Vatican officials have often said. Those decrees underpin the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S. On Thursday, these Indigenous leaders welcomed the statement as a first good step, even though it didn’t address the rescinding of the bulls themselves and continued to take distance from acknowledging actual Vatican culpability in abuses.

The Vatican's latest statement rejecting the Doctrine of Discovery raises questions about Indigenous rights, observers say.

“He heard their request for a statement, and took that to heart.” This is something that our grandkids will continue to struggle with.” “I think there’ll be a lot of analysis around it by legal experts, and even international experts,” she said. 49, requests all religious denominations and faiths repudiate concepts used to justify European sovereignty over Indigenous lands and people, including the Doctrine of Discovery. Based on a series of papal bulls — edicts the head of the Catholic Church began issuing more than 500 years ago — the doctrine “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples,” the statement said. Article content

The Chief of Tsuut'ina Nation is thankful the Vatican has responded to Indigenous demands and formally rejected the Doctrine of Discovery.

“When we hosted Pope Francis on our traditional territory in July, rescinding the Doctrine of Discovery was our survivors’ most prominent request. The Confederacy of Treaty No. One of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action, No. “This sort of sets the record straight to say this land was not discovered,” she told Postmedia in a phone call from Gatineau, Que. Throughout his stops in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut, people held signs and yelled for the Pope to reject the doctrine. Article content

After demands stretched for years and years, the formally repudiated “Doctrine of Discovery,” has been officially rejected by the Vatican.

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Residential school survivors in Canada have called for the Doctrine of Discovery to be rescinded for generations. Advocates weigh in on the impact of the ...

It also says the papal bulls commonly linked to the doctrine were “manipulated for political purposes” and were not part of the teachings of the church, although they failed to adequately “respect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples.” “There is a fundamental power imbalance between European and Christian powers and Indigenous peoples. Getting rid of some of that racism is a start.” The line can be reached anytime toll-free at 1-855-242-3310. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic shrines in the world, after just having met [Pope Francis](http://globalnews.ca/tag/pope-francis). Daniels has been forced into four residential schools in his lifetime: Portage la Prairie, Fort Alexander, Sandy Bay, and what he called a “seminary” in Otterburne, Man. Countless thousands were subjected to gratuitous physical, sexual and spiritual violence by priests and nuns. We didn’t say very much, we kept it to ourselves,” he recalled. [beaded the moccasins gifted](https://globalnews.ca/news/8715770/metis-delegate-beadwork-gifted-pope-francis-vatican/) to Pope Francis on behalf of the Métis survivors, elders, leaders, and youth who formed part of the delegation. Woodhouse, a day school survivor, billed Thursday’s news as a “step in the right direction” that requires a more “forthright” conversation in the days and weeks to come. “We have to see the true solidarity and unity of all levels to be able to do the right thing.” [historic delegation of Indigenous peoples](https://globalnews.ca/news/8709391/indigenous-delegation-arrives-rome-march-27/) to Rome last spring urging the Catholic Church to atone for its role in Canada’s harrowing residential school system.