{"id":17513,"date":"2021-08-07T02:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2021-08-07T02:11:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:11:43","slug":"catholic-bishop-of-syracuse-decries-doctrine-of-discovery-suggests-pope-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/08\/07\/catholic-bishop-of-syracuse-decries-doctrine-of-discovery-suggests-pope-do-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishop of Syracuse Decries Doctrine of Discovery, Suggests Pope Do the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, July 1, 2021 (RNS): The Catholic bishop of Syracuse, New York, is speaking out against the Doctrine of Discovery and revealing plans to ask Pope Francis to repudiate theological teachings used for centuries to justify the subjugation of Indigenous peoples. In an interview with Religion News Service on Wednesday (June 30), Bishop Douglas J. Lucia explained he is exploring a possible meeting with the Holy See to discuss a series of 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees, used by European Christians to rationalize colonizing indigenous people and their land. \u201cSince they were papal bulls in the beginning,\u201d Lucia said, there should be \u201ca public acknowledgment from the Holy Father of the harm these bulls have done to the indigenous population\u201d as well as some kind of statement \u201cto repudiate\u201d the Doctrine of Discovery.<br><br><br>The Doctrine of Discovery draws from a series of papal documents that date back to Pope Nicholas V, whose 1452 \u201cDum Diversas\u201d initiated a lineage of bulls Europeans used to justify various aspects of colonization. It found its way into future documents as well: indigenous peoples were read the \u201cRequerimiento\u201d by Spanish conquistadors, which proclaimed their land belonged to Spain and demanded they abide by the authority of the monarchy and the pope. More to the point, activists and scholars argue, the bulls allowed Europeans to insist Christian rulers can, among other things, seize the land and possessions of non-Christians. \u201cThis particular doctrine has been used to justify both political and personal violence against Indigenous nations, Indigenous peoples and their culture \u2014 their religious and their territorial identities,\u201d Lucia said.<br><br>HPI adds: It is this Doctrine of Discovery which allowed the Portuguese to ravage temples across Goa and Sri Lanka. For more on this topic see \u201csource\u201d here: <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/07\/01\/catholic-bishop-of-syracuse-decries-doctrine-of-discovery-suggests-pope-do-the-same\/\">https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/07\/01\/catholic-bishop-of-syracuse-decries-doctrine-of-discovery-suggests-pope-do-the-same\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, July 1, 2021 (RNS): The Catholic bishop of Syracuse, New York, is speaking out against the Doctrine,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}