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For the last ten years indigenous organizations and natural law advocates have been working diligently and passionately, requesting the pope revoke the Papal Bull-based Doctrine of crime against humanity. According to the Romero Institute, some religions have even joined in this campaign of repudiation against the Doctrine of Discovery: The Episcopal Church, Unitarian Universalist Association, Christian Church, World Council of Churches, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, and the United Methodist Church. Several associations have called for reversal, including thirteen Catholic groups started by the Loretto Community.6
We turn now to history...looking back centuries to glean an underpinning for the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ rife with dire repercussions as a legacy of injustice seeded by the Papal Bulls:
Early Phase of the Papal Bull
(367 CE) Pope Damasus I deliberately and consciously usurped the natural principles of fair justice through a Papal Bull declaring it heresy
to question the nature of Christ and other doctrinal points as decreed at Nicea. This implied that heretics (including their family) could have their lands seized and be sacrificed through torture
and death.
(650 CE) Pope Martin I issued a Papal Bull stating that anyone telling a slave to rebuff his master or leave from his service will be excommunicated as a heretic, liable to forfeit of all property with eventual death by burning.
(1095 CE) Pope Urban II published a Papal Bull granting general amnesty for all convicts (robbers and thieves), so they would join an army to conquer Muslim lands. Pope Urban, in releasing this law, told an assembled mass of criminals: “Let those who have hitherto been robbers now become soldiers.” Additionally, he granted legal permission (to all crusade participants) to the lawful theft of two- thirds of the property of Muslims with one-third being paid to the church. In 1096, Pope Urban II also granted permission to hundreds of thousands of priests, nuns, and former peasants (who heard about a ‘fabulous crusade for personal wealth’) to follow the army of the first crusade because the bull’s division-of-riches also applied to them.
Continuing from Ms. Jacques’ article in The Sovereign Voice, Issue 3, an esteemed group of worldwide elders has been seeking an audience with Pope Francis to deliver
a major missive that the Papal Bulls behind the Roman Catholic Church’s Doctrine of Discovery must be officially rescinded. The Long March to Rome gathering took
place from 30 April to 4 May, 2016 in Florence, Italy, and culminated in a delegation of eleven indigenous elders meeting with Pope Francis to request that these three Papal Bulls be revoked, and issuing a joint statement to Pope Francis and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Steven Newcomb, a member of the delegation, shared more of the journey leading up to this historic request.
To further assist the scope of understanding, it’s convenient to divide our subject into time-periods, while listing a few Papal Bulls. Some may not directly correlate to this fictional Christian ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ although I’ve chosen to include earlier ones (prior to the sixteenth century) to help portray an overall historic milieu. The Roman Catholic Church’s egoist claims on territory are criminal, a violation of natural law and sovereignty. And the cruelty proclaimed from the Vatican perpetrated
on innocent people is also simply criminal.
6The Romero Institute https://romeroinstitute.org/blog/revoke-doctrine-of-discovery
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