{"id":1396,"date":"2023-04-05T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2023-04-07T05:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:18:19","slug":"the-pope-and-the-vatican-go-decolonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Grosfoguel visits the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1397\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1397\" src=\"https:\/\/din.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ramonPope-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/din.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ramonPope-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/din.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ramonPope-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/din.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ramonPope-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/din.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ramonPope.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Grosfoguel saying goodbye to Pope Francisco after a long week staying in his home in the Vatican<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On March 30-31 the Vatican led by the Pope organized a seminar on colonialism, decolonization and neocolonialism. Ramon Grosfoguel, chairman of the board of the Decolonial International Network Foundation, was one of the invited speakers. You can watch the 10 hour conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DEBucsSCajc\">here<\/a>. After the conference the Vatican issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/3\/31\/headlines\/vatican_repudiates_doctrine_of_discovery_used_to_justify_european_colonialism\">statement<\/a> repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery,&#8217; which was used to justify colonialism. The doctrine was invoked as a legal and religious standing by Europeans who &#8220;discovered&#8221; new lands and violently seized it from people who had been living there for generations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30-31 the Vatican led by the Pope organized a seminar on colonialism, decolonization and neocolonialism. Ramon Grosfoguel, chairman of the board of the Decolonial International Network Foundation, was one of the invited speakers. You can watch the 10 hour conference here. After the conference the Vatican issued a statement repudiating the Doctrine of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/?p=1396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramon Grosfoguel visits the Pope<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023_04-2023","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/din.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}