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The formal note is the result of a process of dialogue and listening demanded by the Pope, which does not want to deny the"unfortunate steps" of the past but to recognise them and place them in their historical context and also highlight their effects on the present.
When I say “they,” obviously I don't mean everyone, but there have been calls, repeated calls, insistent calls to please clarify this, you might say, this historical thorn in the side. So at the time, the Popes were not only the Popes, you might say, of the Catholic Church, but they were also rulers of much of Italy. And in that role, you might say, as both Pope and head of state, the Popes were trying to maintain the peace amongst the other rulers who were all, more or less, Catholic.
So that’s how we can understand the Bulls in their context, and, in a certain sense, that they were meant to play a certain role. And soon the content of them was, you might say, reversed. So I think what the process in Canada, the public process and the Church's process in Canada, is inviting everyone to do is to enter into dialogue so that, about these tense and painful subjects, there is mutual listening. And reallylistening. It's not just that the indigenous people need to speak, but the more recently non-indigenous arrivals also need to speak.
But it's a long and complex history and this is not the only long and complex history of the development of rights language. If you compare how the Church spoke about this particular issue, the question of the indigenous peoples in the new colonies, with the language that it used at the same time about women, about children, about Jews, about non-Catholics, that was pretty horrendous, too.
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