In repudiation of its devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican masks the history and responsibility of Catholic Church

What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent conversations about March’s joint statement from the Vatican repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery—a concept that has underwritten over 500 years of Christian subjugation and genocide of Indigenous peoples, along with the theft of their land.