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Friday, July 29, 2022
The sad, surreal visit of an apologetic Pope (UPDATED)
Canadian Indigenous peoples face a reckoning after being granted an audience with a major symbol of their oppression.
Indigenous peoples’ most progressive hope for his trip was that he would rescind the 1493 Papal Bull and related Doctrine of Discovery,
which served as the historical Church-sanctioned policy rationale for
destroying and subverting Native culture in the so-called New World. But
he has not done that — and even the most idealistic of Indigenous
advocates suspected he would not.
To do that would have
undermined a foundational principle of Christian, colonial and
capitalistic ideology, and few contemporary world systems seem prepared
for the possible ramifications — financial, social and otherwise.
The
Papal Bull "Inter Caetera," issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493,
played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World. The
document supported Spain’s strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the
lands discovered by Columbus the previous year. It established a
demarcation line one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde
Islands and assigned Spain the exclusive right to acquire territorial
possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line. All others were
forbidden to approach the lands west of the line without special
license from the rulers of Spain. This effectively gave Spain a monopoly
on the lands in the New World.
The Bull stated that any
land not inhabited by Christians was available to be "discovered,"
claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that "the
Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere
increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that
barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself." This
"Doctrine of Discovery" became the basis of all European claims in the
Americas as well as the foundation for the United States’ western
expansion. In the US Supreme Court in the 1823 case Johnson v. McIntosh,
Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion in the unanimous decision held
"that the principle of discovery gave European nations an absolute right
to New World lands." In essence, American Indians had only a right of
occupancy, which could be abolished.
Questions abound: Will the papal bull ever be rescinded? If so, what
will that mean? Will the Pope make a similar visit to the U.S. and to
Latin America, which both experienced similar atrocities to the
Indigenous peoples of Canada? Will anything really change as a result of
this sorry snapshot?
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Papal Visit
The historic visit by Pope Francis to Canada this week drew thousands of
Indigenous people from across Turtle Island to hear the apology they
had been expecting for the Catholic Church’s role in the ugly
residential school history.
ICT’s special correspondent Miles Morrisseau, Métis Nation, based in Manitoba, Canada, was among them. He witnessed the apology
in Maskwacis, Alberta, on the grounds of the former Ermineskin Indian
Residential School. He was there for the applause, for the tears and the
emotional protest song.
And he was there to gather reaction
to the long-awaited penance, from tribal leaders who gathered and the
First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who made a pilgrimage to see the
Pope.
He followed the Pope to Lac Ste. Anne where the Pontiff sat silently
looking toward the lake before blessing the crowd with its sacred
waters. And he was there to talk to the Cree woman whose tearful song on Monday brought an outpouring around the world.
ICT National Correspondent Mary Annette Pember also joined the coverage, gathering perspectives
from Indigenous people in the United States who hope the Pope will make
a similar “penitence pilgrimage” to apologize for the U.S. boarding
school system. She explored Indigenous demands that the Catholic Church return the tens of thousands of sacred artifacts stored in Vatican museums.
ICT gave readers the Indigenous perspective of a story that is very personal for many of us..
Here’s a round-up of ICT’s coverage of the papal visit:
By Miles Morrisseau and Mary Annette Pember
A six-day swing through the heart of Indigenous Canada is meant to be a ‘penitential voyage’ ... continue reading
By ICT
Pope Francis arrived Sunday in Canada to high expectations that he will
apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in operating Indigenous
residential schools ... continue reading
By Miles Morrisseau
The Pope’s apology brings renewed calls for reconciliation, reparations ... continue reading
[Photo by Miles Morrisseau/ICT]
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