Posted on 07/08/2021 11:42:26 AM PDT by Marchmain
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Douglas J. Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century Vatican documents that justified colonization, land takeovers and oppression of Indigenous peoples.
In the last decade, numerous congregations, denominations and faith-based organizations — including several women’s religious communities — have urged the Vatican to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, which asserts European Christianity’s superiority and power over other lands.
Bishop Lucia appears to be the first U.S. Catholic bishop to publicly call for the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic Church to acknowledge the damage those documents caused and apologize for harming Indigenous peoples in the United States.
Beginning with the 1452 “Dum Diversas,” several papal bulls outline directives Christian nations and European monarchs used to condone conquest of the Americas and other lands.
“Basically, it was taking away the right to ownership. Literally. It was subjugating them. They became second-class citizens,” Bishop Lucia of Syracuse told The Catholic Sun, the diocesan newspaper. “Today we talk about white supremacy. This was white supremacy.”
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Pope: Sounds good. But first let me ask Xi's permission.
This bishop sounds like someone who is completely clueless about history. But sadly, that’s par for the course these days. Has he actually read the discovery narratives of the 16th century? To say that native peoples had it rough before contact with Europeans is the ultimate understatement. The arrival of European civilization meant the beginning of the end of endless revenge wars, ritual torture, genocide and cannibalism. That is why there are likely more people with Native American heritage alive today than at any time in history.
And they want it back for a casino and tax-free tobacco store, because the great Waukeon spirit will not rest until 200 slot machines are returned to the hunting grounds of their ancestors.
And these indigenous people would never, ever atta k each other for land and plunder. Nope, not once…
First, Pope needs to beg forgiveness for letting CCP appoint his bishops.
“This was white supremacy.”
No, it was Christian supremacy, which was and always will be a good thing.
These graves are unmarked today.
That does not mean that the graves were unmarked at the time of burial.
The schools were poorly funded and there was no money for permanent stone markers or for replacement markers when the wooden markers decayed away.
Waves of tuberculosis (and other communicable diseases) swept through the schools periodically and killed children by the dozens. And because of the poor funding there was no money to send the deceased children home for burial. Consequently, a large number of children’s graves at the schools.
But, doing the necessary research to find out the facts behind the graves is too much work for a modern reporter and mass graves is a much better story for a woke presstatutes.
As always in modern reporting; the History of Now dominates the headlines.
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia is, of course, a francis-bishop, consecrated in 2019.
His principal consecrator was Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
That’s right the Indian tribes were killing each other and stealing land.
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