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On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a Papal Bull titled “Inter Catera.” This Papal Bull issued 531 years ago impacts us right now.
The Inter Catera states that: any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that “the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.”
This is what established the Doctrine of Discovery. It was this doctrine that Europeans used to claim land that really did not belong to them. This Doctrine was not agreed to outside of Europe, therefore all claims made by European descendants here about what they discovered are false and basically every European-American is a descendant of an illegal immigrant. I say this because not only did indigenous nations fight Europeans who invaded, there were also lawsuits filed against the American government as recent as 2005. In 2023, the Catholic Church finally decided to renounce the “Inter Catera” after 530 years.
The Inter Catera states that: any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that “the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.”
This is what established the Doctrine of Discovery. It was this doctrine that Europeans used to claim land that really did not belong to them. This Doctrine was not agreed to outside of Europe, therefore all claims made by European descendants here about what they discovered are false and basically every European-American is a descendant of an illegal immigrant. I say this because not only did indigenous nations fight Europeans who invaded, there were also lawsuits filed against the American government as recent as 2005. In 2023, the Catholic Church finally decided to renounce the “Inter Catera” after 530 years.