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Banner against 'doctrine of discovery' raised at papal Mass

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 28 Jul 2022 22:00
3 Min Read

As the pope began Mass in a cathedral outside Quebec City, a large banner protesting the "doctrine of discovery" was unfurled near the front row facing the congregation.

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  • People displays a banner during Pope Francis mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupré in Quebec City. (AP)
    People display a banner during Pope Francis' mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupré in Quebec City. (AP)

Participants at Pope Francis' Mass in Canada on Thursday held a banner requesting that he formally rescind edicts from the 15th century in which the papacy justified taking indigenous land in the New World.

As the Pope began Mass in a cathedral outside Quebec City, a large banner protesting the so-called "doctrine of discovery" was unfurled near the front row facing the congregation. The majority of those in the church were indigenous.

It is worth noting that the Doctrine of Discovery is a colonial-era doctrine that claims white European nations "discovered" North America during the age of exploration.

Those who hung the banner, which was written on a white sheet with red letters, later took it down.

It was unclear whether the Pope, who was standing behind the banner, could see what it said.

This comes just three days after Pope Francis apologized for the "evil" inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools.

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The Catholic Church in Canada apologized in September to the Indigenous community for a century of abuse at Church-run residential schools set up by the government.

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission labeled the almost-century-long legacy a "cultural genocide". Children were beaten for speaking their native language, which violently compelled the Natives into cultural isolation, then genocide.

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