Vatican repudiates Doctrine of Discovery 600 years after its inception
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Vatican repudiates Doctrine of Discovery 600 years after its inception

600 years after creating the Doctrine of Discovery, the Catholic church is repudiating it. On Mar. 30, the Vatican, Roman Catholicism’s governmental body, announced it was “repudiat[ing] those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples including…the Doctrine of Discovery.”   The…

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