Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 3, 2020 3:24:32 GMT 12
OPEN TO TALKS ON MAORI PAPAL APOLOGY CALL
Te Runanga o Te Hahi Katorika ki Aotearoa chair Sr Tui Cadigan, RSM, said she would be open to a thorough discussion on a call by the Māori Council’s executive director for an apology from Pope Francis for acts by some of his predecessors that laid the basis for the colonisation of Aotearoa.
Papal bulls such as Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera, issued in 1493, gave rise to the discovery doctrine, which gave European entities the legal and political justification to colonise lands outside of Europe.
He said this caused “intergenerational trauma” among First Nations people, including Māori.
“A lot of people will blame the state and so they should. A lot of people would blame the Crown and they must. A lot of people will blame their colonial masters and they should. But we should also go right back to the heart of where many of these began and that was with the doctrine of discovery and the Vatican,” he said.....
www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/01/02/open-to-talks-on-maori-papal-apology-call/
Te Runanga o Te Hahi Katorika ki Aotearoa chair Sr Tui Cadigan, RSM, said she would be open to a thorough discussion on a call by the Māori Council’s executive director for an apology from Pope Francis for acts by some of his predecessors that laid the basis for the colonisation of Aotearoa.
Papal bulls such as Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera, issued in 1493, gave rise to the discovery doctrine, which gave European entities the legal and political justification to colonise lands outside of Europe.
He said this caused “intergenerational trauma” among First Nations people, including Māori.
“A lot of people will blame the state and so they should. A lot of people would blame the Crown and they must. A lot of people will blame their colonial masters and they should. But we should also go right back to the heart of where many of these began and that was with the doctrine of discovery and the Vatican,” he said.....
www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/01/02/open-to-talks-on-maori-papal-apology-call/