The Pop has repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery , a legal concept, backed by 15th-century papal bulls, that justified Europeans' claiming of Indigenous lands. Court cases in the U.S. and Canada have relied on the doctrine. 

"As the moral conscience of Europe, the Vatican enabled Christian empires to commit genocide, starve, relocate and dispossess Indigenous peoples from these lands in the name of the Doctrine of Discovery," the Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations said in a news release on Thursday afternoon. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-experts-leaders-edmonton-vatican-doctrine-1.6796899

Chase Iron Eyes says: it's not enough. See

https://lakotalaw.org/news/2023-04-19/doctrine-of-discovery-not-enough