The Catholic Church took a fresh step in acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century papal edicts that empowered Europeans to colonize non-Christian lands. | AFP
In a joint statement on Thursday, two Vatican departments insisted that despite being based on papal bulls, the doctrine was “not part of the teaching of the Catholic Church”.
One 1455 edict by Pope Nicholas V granted Portugal’s king the right to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue all Saracens and pagans”, according to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. It concluded: “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’.”For nearly a century until the 1990s, Canada’s government sent some 150,000 Indigenous children into Church-run residential schools, where they were cut off from their families, language and culture.
“This is probably the last chapter in the era of words. Now action must follow,” he said, referring to financial compensation, support and cultural revitalization projects that he said must be strengthened.And he said that “never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others, or that it is legitimate to employ ways of coercing others”.
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