Ku’e Action Burning of the Papal Bulls Every year on “Discoverer’s Day” (a.k.a. Columbus Day), a stalwart group of people gather on Fort Street in Honolulu for a demonstration called the “burning of the papal bulls.” Come join us on Monday, October 13, 2014 at 12:00 noon in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace at the mauka end of Fort Street to protest against the papal bulls.” These are Catholic Church decrees that “legalized” over 500 years of slaughter and subjugation of original peoples and nations; the taking of whole continents of lands; and plundering of their resources. It’s upon these papal bulls that the greed-driven modern “global” society is founded. Though some of the more violent manifestations of the papal bulls have been mitigated by ‘democratic’ principles, humanitarian concerns and the articulation of human rights, the original decrees still remain in place and still subliminally drives ‘globalization.’ The protest on Monday calls for the Catholic Church to rescind the papal bulls, to disavow the evil principles that even today ‘legalizes subjugation and plunder. Even here in Hawaii… What is this about? A “papal bull” is a decree issued by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church (the Vatican). In 1493, after Columbus returned from his first trip having “discovered” the new world,” Pope Alexander VI issued Inter Caetera, a papal bull which granted to Spain all lands to the west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde islands. Inter Caetera, along with concepts like, Terra Nulius” (meaning, Land that belongs to no-one’) became a set of edicts that gave tacit consent to creating international laws that considered territory populated by heathens (non-Christians) as land that nobody owns so that the first Christian (read, European) country to “discover it is entitled to take it over, as finders keepers”. These edicts and laws and the practices based on them came to be generally known as, “The Doctrine of Discovery. To quote from the organizers: Original peoples and supporters seek the formal revocation of the 1493 papal bull Inter Caetera. This decree was issued by the Vatican to Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Caribbean. Along with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, it sought to establish Christian dominion over the globe and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and seizure of their lands. As a result, an estimated 100 million indigenous peoples were killed off in the process of Europes conquest of the “new world. This papal edict has never been repealed and is the foundation-stone of the international system we live under today and directly related to the corporate-state-military plunder and rape of the planet, which is sometimes linked to the phenomenon known as globalization. This is the reason so many indigenous peoples dislike and distrust Christianity. Apologizing for wrongs committed without rescinding, repudiating and repenting from the fundamental policy, is hollow and meaningless. (To their credit, the Episcopal Church of America was the first major denomination to officially renounce this policy a few years ago.) So, if you can on Monday come and join us in standing in solidarity to call for the Catholic Church to rescind the papal bulls. Malama pono, Leon Siu and Pilipo Souza Committee of Hawaiian Nationals
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:04:23 +0000
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