Post by NJtoTX on Jul 30, 2022 14:09:45 GMT
For the Church's role in the brutal “Indian Residential School” system that only ended in 1998.
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/07/30/democracy-now-was-the-popes-apology-over-church-abuses-enough/
But the papal Doctrine of Discovery of 1493 gave blessing to European colonizers to seize land that was not inhabited by Christians. Non-Christians in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere, were deemed savages and “enemies of Christ.”
They were, are, a formal continuation of what had been going on since at least the 8th century, from Charlemagne through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the war on witches, to the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.He still has not revoked it despite calls to do so.
doctrineofdiscovery.org
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/07/30/democracy-now-was-the-popes-apology-over-church-abuses-enough/
But the papal Doctrine of Discovery of 1493 gave blessing to European colonizers to seize land that was not inhabited by Christians. Non-Christians in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere, were deemed savages and “enemies of Christ.”
They were, are, a formal continuation of what had been going on since at least the 8th century, from Charlemagne through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the war on witches, to the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.
In 1823, the “Doctrine of Discovery” was first articulated as a legal formulation in U.S. Supreme Court case, Johnson v. M’Intosh in 1823. As this case fundamentally defines international property law today, it continues to be used by multi-national corporations and Nation-States in their extraction of resources in indigenous territories around the world. The global scale with which the DoCD expressed itself in the “Age of Discovery”—first in Africa, then the Americas, and beyond—created a unified Christendom, which became the opposing force against the great global plurality of cultures. This Doctrine governs United States and international law today and has been cited as recently as 2005 in the decision City Of Sherrill V. Oneida Indian Nation Of N.Y.
doctrineofdiscovery.org
