Posted on 04/07/2023 7:15:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
Scholars say Vatican is appeasing Islam by spinning bulls as 'xenophobic'
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican has abrogated three papal bulls, claiming that the documents are offensive to indigenous peoples and "have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith."
The bulls Dum Diversas (1452), Romanus Pontifex (1455) and Inter Caetera (1493) contain the basis for the "doctrine of discovery," which "is not part of the teaching of the Catholic Church," the Vatican has announced.
Cultural Imperialism
"The Church acknowledges that these papal bulls did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of indigenous peoples," the dicasteries for Culture and Education and for Promoting Integral Human Development said in a joint statement published Thursday.
The Vatican dicasteries quoted Pope Francis' words endorsing the repeal of the bulls: "Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others, or that it is legitimate to employ ways of coercing others."
Since the Magisterium "upholds the respect due to every human being," the "Catholic Church therefore repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political 'doctrine of discovery,'" the Vatican statement categorically declared.
The bulls' contents "were manipulated for political purposes by competing colonial powers in order to justify immoral acts against indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesiastical authorities," the statement added.
But top Islamic scholars told Church Militant that the Vatican had annulled the bulls not so much because of their purported relationship to colonialism and slavery but because the documents were offensive to Islam and an obstacle to ongoing dialogue.
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...
I’m sure the Muslims will now want to stop killing them
“We grant to you full and free power, through the Apostolic authority by this edict, to invade, conquer, fight, subjugate the Saracens and pagans, and other infidels and other enemies of Christ ... and to lead their persons in perpetual servitude.”
The main importance for American history is these same Papal Bulls authorized slavery across the non-Christian world, a moral mistake that cost our nation and many others dearly.
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Maybe time for another crusade.
JP II was in some ways woke before being woke was a thing.
Apologizing for other people, especially for people from other times, is at best a questionable practice.
Whether or not Francis is even at best . . . who am I to judge.
Somebody has to be the worst Pope in history. I’m sorry for him. (Not that I’m saying he is Francis).
“Chrislam”
Shame. The Vatican/Pope must hold in utter contempt the belief that the purpose of settling new lands must be to spread the Gospel.
Yup.
The barbarians were at the gates in the late 15th century so those Catholics knew the true face of Islam. The Muslims almost took Europe in 1571.
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