A proposito di una recente Nota formale della Santa Sede in merito alla dottrina giuridica ‘della scoperta’. Verso un revirement del tradizionale orientamento?

Abstract

This article intends to conduct an brief analysis on the significance of some recent pronouncements of the Catholic Church that question the foundations of the traditional doctrine of discovery, which has been forged by the colonial powers since the sixteenth century and has found particular expression in the nineteenth-century legislation and jurisprudence of the courts of several countries, including the United States and Canada