ROME – Though it was, in a sense, 530 years in the making, required two separate departments of the Roman Curia to address, and came a full eight months after demands burst into full public view ...

Indigenous tribes across the United States are responding after the Vatican denied its "Doctrine of Discovery." In the 15th century the Catholic Church released several decrees that supported the ...

Two Vatican departments issued a joint statement Thursday on the “doctrine of discovery” and the dignity and rights due to indigenous peoples. The statement said the legal concept of the “doctrine of ...

What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...

Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada had mixed reactions to the Vatican's repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of 15th-century papal bulls that legitimized colonial exploitation, but ...

Nearly 500 years after papal decrees were used to rationalize Europe's colonial conquests, the Vatican repudiated those decrees on Thursday, saying the "Doctrine of Discovery" that was used to justify ...

In a landmark statement made today, the Vatican formally repudiated a centuries-old theory of church decrees that endorsed the forceful seizing of Native lands and near-total destruction of Indigenous ...

What’s at the crux of the Doctrine of Discovery? For hundreds of years Indigenous peoples have suffered the effects of the so-called Doctrine of Discovery, a principle of international law and based ...

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” We are reminded of William Faulkner’s famous quotation as two strands of 15th century history meet in present-day Columbus Circle in Syracuse, calling us ...

After showing the film “Two Who Dared” about the Sharps, a Unitarian couple who saved thousands of children from the Nazis, Charlie Clements asked for questions. I stood and asked what current ...

During the period that Saint John Paul II was pope from the late 1970s through 2005, he apologized and asked forgiveness for the history of Christian slave-holding and for the injustices inflicted by ...

Doctrine of Discovery Stolen lands Strong Hearts is a film about a devastating decision made over 500 years ago which continues to profoundly impact Indigenous and Settler people worldwide Pope ...