Vatican Rejects 'Doctrine of Discovery', Used to Justify Colonial Conquest and Land Theft

In a historic shift long sought by Indigenous-led activists, the Holy See on Thursday formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery, a dubious legal theory born from a series of 15th-century papal decrees used by colonizers including the United States to legally justify the genocidal conquest of non-Christian peoples and their land...

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