Posted on 07/03/2021 6:41:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia said he hopes to meet with the Vatican to discuss a series of 15th-century papal proclamations used by European Christians to rationalize the subjugation of Indigenous peoples.
(RNS) — The Catholic bishop of Syracuse, New York, is speaking out against the Doctrine of Discovery and revealing plans to ask Pope Francis to repudiate theological teachings used for centuries to justify the subjugation of Indigenous peoples.
In an interview with Religion News Service on Wednesday (June 30), Bishop Douglas J. Lucia explained he is exploring a possible meeting with the Holy See to discuss a series of 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees, used by European Christians to rationalize colonizing Indigenous people and their land.
“Since they were papal bulls in the beginning,” Lucia said, there should be “a public acknowledgment from the Holy Father of the harm these bulls have done to the Indigenous population” as well as some kind of statement “to repudiate” the Doctrine of Discovery.
The Doctrine of Discovery draws from a series of papal documents that date back to Pope Nicholas V, whose 1452 “Dum Diversas” initiated a lineage of bulls Europeans used to justify various aspects of colonization. It found its way into future documents as well: Indigenous peoples were read the “Requerimiento” by Spanish conquistadors, which proclaimed their land belonged to Spain and demanded they abide by the authority of the monarchy and the pope.
More to the point, activists and scholars argue, the bulls allowed Europeans to insist Christian rulers can, among other things, seize the land and possessions of non-Christians.
“This particular doctrine has been used to justify both political and personal violence against Indigenous nations, Indigenous peoples and their culture — their religious and their territorial identities,” Lucia said.
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Who cares about this now? Or is it yet one more thing the pope should apologize for?
Well they can start by getting the Pope to beg forgiveness for his persecution of the WHITE MAN in Britain and actively waging war against the protestant churches.
Oh I’m sorry - does that not fit your narrative?
“...subjugation of Indigenous peoples”
AKA Preaching the Gospel and seeking converts. Because putting the wrongs done aside what is really being objected to is believing that Jesus was also sent to save the native population and for that end preaching His Word.
HIS WORD nowhere hints at subjugation of any peoples... LOVE is never forced... IF a man LOVES the Creator He is not in need of a fake 'father'. Truly amazing to observe the methodology of minds that control 360 degrees of man's idolatry and ignore 'wrongs done'... The Heavenly Father is keeping the perfect record and HE intends on righting those 'wronged'... get ready for it.
If you don’t realize there is a great deal of anti-Christian (and not just Catholic)in the demands for this and other guilt theatre you are not paying attention.
Consider how the indigenous tribes treated other tribes and eve their own people, and claims that subjugation was exclusively a great European evil soon becomes laughable.
I am not denying or defending wrongs done. But I am telling you that what is really being objected to is what was the heart of Western civilization at that time, Christianity.
What about the persecution of white Catholics by Anglicsns?
Before King Henry VIII tore his nation away from the pope and the Catholic Church in the 16th century, martyr saints in that land were few. England’s saints tended to be bishops and scholars, monks and mystics, such as St. Augustine of Canterbury, Venerable Bede, St. Aelred of Rievaulx, St. Anselm and St. Etheldreda. (St. Thomas Becket was one of the few exceptions.)
But the Protestant Reformation changed all that. As it sought to co-opt or dismantle the Catholic Church throughout Britain, it put to death those who stood in its way.In 1970, Pope Paul VI canonized a group of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; in 1987, Pope John Paul II beatified another group of Eighty-Five Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales. Additional Reformation martyrs from Britain have been canonized separately.
Ditto for the persecution of Catholics in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, in Prussia etc?
Or the Know nothings and Klu Klux Klan who targeted Catholics?
What wasps?
The p is dead, the majority of mainline first and generation Protestant churches are dead or dying. The remainder are rapturists, prosperity gospel, Adventists, etc.
The majority of white folks in the usa are not AngloSaxon. Not since Van Buren
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