The Vatican has denounced its "doctrine of discovery" which it used to give a religious justification to colonization.

In the 1400s and 1500s, European monarchs were seriously afraid they would go to Hell if they started unjust wars. For instance, the king of Spain really really wanted to attack England, but waited years for a religiously valid excuse for dispatching the armada.

It is foolish to demand that the Vatican make substantive changes in the situation of indigenous people today, because it doesn't have any power nowadays. All it can do is give advice — which can be good or bad.

It is a good thing that a Vatican decision "doesn't change the law in any country." If the Vatican could do that, the first change it would make is to prohibit abortion.