Critics say the Catholic Church should instead adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which spells out the need to recognize their…
At the front of a basilica in Quebec, where the 85-year-old pontiff prepared to preside over mass, Sarain Fox and her cousin stood in silence, holding a banner with the words “Rescind the Doctrine” emblazoned in red and black paint.Days earlier in Maskwacis, Alta., after the Pope finished delivering his apology to residential school survivors for the first time on Canadian soil, a shout came from someone in the crowd.
“I don’t think it’s in any way unjustified for Indigenous Peoples to expect a lot of things from the Pope, because so much of our world and nationhood has been stolen by this particular church.”Article content In its 94 calls to action, the commission instructed all government levels, religious groups and signatories to the historic Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to repudiate this notion.
That’s why “people want to see it addressed,” said King, an Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation, “because that’s ultimately what underlies all the policies that came after it.” In response to criticism from Indigenous leaders, papal visit organizers said the Vatican clarified previously how the doctrine has “no legal or moral authority” in the church and how Francis, in his apology, condemned ideas associated with it, such as assimilation.
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