UN Rights Expert Hails Vatican's Rejection of 'Doctrine of Discovery'

Vatican News ^ | 4/11/23 | Deborah Castellano Lubov

[marshmallow]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, praises the Vatican's rejection of the 'Doctrine of Discovery' and expresses hope that other governments follow Holy See's lead.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, has welcomed the Vatican's recent rejection of the 'Doctrine of Discovery' and has expressed hope that other governments would follow the Holy See's lead, reported www.un.org.

The Doctrine of Discovery was a theory that served to justify the expropriation by sovereign colonizers of indigenous lands from their rightful owners.

“The doctrine of discovery," the Indigenous Peoples' rights expert acknowledged, "is still an open wound for many Indigenous Peoples around the world... It must be addressed as part of a reconciliation process between Indigenous Peoples and colonial States.”

In the article, the UN official commended the Vatican’s recognition of the harmful effects of colonization, including the pain the Indigenous Peoples have suffered, and welcomed Pope Francis’ exhortation to promote mutual respect and dialogue, and to abandon the colonizing mentality.

The Vatican, in a 30 March “Joint Statement” from the Dicastery for Culture and the Dicastery for Integral Human Development formally repudiated "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.’"

Thanks to dialogue with indigenous peoples, it wrote, “the Church has acquired a greater awareness of their sufferings, past and present, due to the expropriation of their lands … as well as the policies of forced assimilation, promoted by the governmental authorities of the time, intended to eliminate their indigenous cultures.”

[markman46]

Dear UN GFYS you so outside your charter

[spintreebob]

Let’s pick and choose (past and present) which immigrants are worthy of welcome and which are not. Which Native American Nations were anti-immigrant? Which welcomed immigrants?

As I recall it Squanto welcomed the Pilgrims. But then his mind had already been corrupted by becoming a Christian.

Currently, some immigrants are Christian culture, some Hindu culture, some Muslim culture. Among Mexicans, some are La Criada/Cristeros....Some are not.

Which should we welcome?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Oh, but they reinstated it silently over orthodoxy....they must be CONVERTED, with extreme prejudice.