Posted on 02/11/2015 6:17:01 AM PST by marshmallow
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is weighing whether to ask the Vatican to repeal the Papal Bulls of Discovery that granted 15th-century explorers the right to conquer the New World and the “heathen” aboriginals that called it home.
Chair Murray Sinclair says the commission examining the impact of Canada’s Indian residential schools is looking carefully at the 1455 and 1493 Catholic edicts as part of its final report.
Many argue the proclamations legitimized the treatment of aboriginal people as “less than human.” Crown sovereignty in Canada can be traced back to those papal bulls and neither Canada nor the United States has repudiated them, Sinclair said.
“The movement to repudiation is very strong and is moving ahead,” Sinclair said in an interview. “If we as the commission are going to join that movement or endorse it … we have to come to a conclusion that it’s necessary for reconciliation, to establish a proper relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people.”
A growing chorus in Canada is calling on the Vatican to help begin a new relationship with aboriginal people on equal footing.
The discovery bulls, and others in the same vein that followed, gave Catholic explorers “full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction of every kind” and outlined their “duty to lead the peoples dwelling in those islands and countries to embrace the Christian religion.”
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Oooookay.
Good to know they have so much time on their hands to think this one up.
While they’re renouncing previous exploration, perhaps the Vatican could pass an encyclical or whatever condemning any future exploration into outer space.
Are they planning on paying reparations while they're at it?
Crap... now we gotta give it back?
Does this mean all Hispanics living south of the border will have to go home to Europe?
Oh, for heaven’s sake, the only time history matters is when Western civilization loses.
I wonder if they are secretly afraid that Spain and Portugal will invade Canada and claim it for their own, since they are mostly ‘heathen’ Protestants and secularlists? (semi-sarcastic)
I doubt that the English Protestant kings who ruled Canada gave any thought whatsoever to any Papal decrees.
Would that mean that We would all have to move back to Europe or Asia or Africa and give the Americas to genetically pure descendants of pre Columbian America?
If we are repealing bulls, let’s start with Unam Sanctam.
“...There is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins...”
“...Indeed we declare, say, pronounce, and define that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Rubbish!!!!
The conquistadors rolling into Aztec areas was like the Allied armies liberating Auschwitz and Dachau. Basically ISIS with astronomy.
Ah, how long before the anti-Catholics show up, lol!
“those papal bulls and neither Canada nor the United States has repudiated them”
why would America need to repudiate a Papal Bull from 1455 and 1493?
G-d bless my parents who were devout Catholics...but...this is essentially the reason I left the RC church.
G-d bless my parents who were devout Catholics...but...this is essentially the reason I left the RC church.
They would have to move back to Siberia.
Okay ... everyone back at where you started. Goes for natives in the US - back to Mongolia.
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (both individual members and corporate entities thereof) can start by unilaterally signing over all their real estate to public domain, and moving back to wherever the oldest fork on their family tree takes them. If they won’t, I won’t.
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