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This is major--BUT "A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, 'did not adequately reflect the equal dignity & rights of Indigenous peoples' & have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith" -- isn't quiiite owning the atrocities it encouraged/sanctioned.
https://twitter.com/IndianCountry/status/1641467898462912515
#LandBack
But also ferstinkin' own your role and complicity in the thing, friends. It's been 500 years. You can do it. We believe in you.
But also ferstinkin' own your role and complicity in the thing, friends. It's been 500 years. You can do it. We believe in you.
I MEAN?!
Any comment on Pope Leo XIII's 1892 defense of the conquest of the Americas and forced conversion of its Indigenous peoples?
Any comment on Pope Leo XIII's 1892 defense of the conquest of the Americas and forced conversion of its Indigenous peoples?
https://twitter.com/drmag00/status/1642909695143813122?s=20
And, as a few Indigenous folks are observing in the comments, when Catholic institutions are running residential schools, that's an active role in the project of conquest--not a passive statement nobody was supposed to take seriously.
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