It's Just History

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March 30, 2023 / Index

For decades, Indigenous people from all over the western hemisphere have asked the Catholic Church to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery.

The Church finally acquiesced on March 30, 2023.

Because of this, I almost chose another narrative for this project, but the damage that has been done by this over the past several centuries is not so easily undoable.

In its statement on rescinding the Doctrine of Discovery, the Catholic Church claims that the papal bulls were never an official expression of the Catholic faith, and that colonial powers had “manipulated” these documents to “justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesial authorities.”

And yet it all began with the very first pope… (or so they say).


Below is a list of resources used in creating this short project.

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