8 April 2023

Vatican renounces colonial era Doctrine of Discovery. Will US Supreme Court do likewise?

More than five centuries after it was formulated in a series of papal decrees, the Vatican issued a formal announcement on March 30 repudiating the Euro-supremacist Doctrine of Discovery. In essence, the doctrine said that all lands not occupied by Christians passed into the hands of the European conquerors as soon as they were discovered, and their inhabitants enslaved.