In a landmark statement made today, the Vatican formally repudiated a centuries-old theory of church decrees that endorsed the forceful seizing of Native lands and near-total destruction of Indigenous ...

When you buy a house or other real estate, you conduct a professional title search to make sure no one can claim to own the property or has a lien on it. In this part of Florida, title can be traced ...

During the period that Saint John Paul II was pope from the late 1970s through 2005, he apologized and asked forgiveness for the history of Christian slave-holding and for the injustices inflicted by ...

Indigenous people hold a protest banner as Pope Francis celebrates mass at the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec, Canada, on July 28, 2022 - Copyright AFP ...

Nearly 500 years after papal decrees were used to rationalize Europe's colonial conquests, the Vatican repudiated those decrees on Thursday, saying the "Doctrine of Discovery" that was used to justify ...

Dave Pasinski, of Fayetteville, has graduate degrees in moral theology and divinity. Some may wonder about the fuss over 500-year-old documents comprising the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” and why ...

Indigenous tribes across the United States are responding after the Vatican denied its "Doctrine of Discovery." In the 15th century the Catholic Church released several decrees that supported the ...

TORONTO (CNS)—A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome, has not been announced. But whenever it happens, it is likely ...

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” We are reminded of William Faulkner’s famous quotation as two strands of 15th century history meet in present-day Columbus Circle in Syracuse, calling us ...

TORONTO — A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome, has not been announced. But whenever it happens, it is likely to ...

After showing the film “Two Who Dared” about the Sharps, a Unitarian couple who saved thousands of children from the Nazis, Charlie Clements asked for questions. I stood and asked what current ...