Apologies from Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's violence and abuse against Indigenous people in Canada during a visit in 2022 fell short in the eyes of prominent Indigenous advocates. Will his ...

In the 1400s, the Catholic Pope instituted the Doctrine of Discovery. This concept was used as justification for colonizers to subjugate and seize the land of Indigenous peoples, even into current ...

Indigenous communities have long called on the Vatican rescind the concept, which had been used over the centuries to seize land from people in the Americas, Africa and elsewhere. By Elisabetta ...