How The VATICAN RUINED The World... | The Adonis Black Show

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]In 1493, Pope Alexander the VI issued a document called Inter Caetera. It drew a line down the Atlantic Ocean. Everything west of that line belonged to Spain.

[00:00:10]Everything east, Portugal. The Pope didn't own the world. He didn't have an army. He didn't have a navy, but he had something better. The authority to bless it. This was divine real estate, apparently. The Pope literally carved up the planet like a pizza and handed out slices to his favorite Catholic kings.

[00:00:24]And for 530 years, the Vatican never said sorry. Not until 2023. And even then, they didn't repeal the document.

[00:00:31]They just said it was manipulated by colonial powers. Manipulated? The Pope is infallible, except when he's not. The church speaks for God, unless it's embarrassing. The Catholic Church wrote the permission slip for colonialism.

[00:00:44]They authorized it. They drew the line.

[00:00:46]They blessed the chains. And the line they drew is still with us. In the courthouses that cite the doctrine of discovery to deny indigenous land claims today. In the residential school graves that are still being dug up. In the silence of the Vatican archives. So, let's walk through it. From the papal bulls of the 1450s to the mass graves of Canada. From the Inquisition in Goa to the Pope's half apology in 2023. Because the Pope drew the line, and we're still living on the wrong side of it.

[00:01:17]The Vatican didn't start with Inter Caetera. They'd been practicing, okay?

[00:01:22]Starting in 1452, a series of papal bulls, Dum Diversas, Romanus Pontifex, and others, authorized Portugal and Spain to seize land and subjugate people as long as they converted them to Christianity. The legal principle was called discovery.

[00:01:37]Non-Christian lands were considered terra nullius, empty land, even if people were living there. You can't steal something that nobody owns, right?

[00:01:45]So, they just declared that nobody owned it. Problem solved. This is the part where I remind you that the Pope is supposed to be a representative of Christ. But theology bends when money talks. The doctrine of discovery was cited in US Supreme Court cases as late as 2005 to deny indigenous land claim.

[00:02:00]The case is called City of Sherrill versus Oneida Indian Nation. The court ruled that the Oneida couldn't reclaim land because, and I'm not making this up, the doctrine of discovery had long since given that land to Europeans.

[00:02:12]George W. Bush was president. The iPod was 2 years old and the Supreme Court was citing a 15th century pope to steal land from Native Americans.

[00:02:26]So, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issues Inter Caetera, one line in the Atlantic Ocean.

[00:02:32]Spain gets the west, Portugal the east.

[00:02:34]There was just one problem. Portugal thought the deal was rigged. The Pope was Spanish, so Portugal complained and a year later the two countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, moving the line slightly west so Portugal could get Brazil. Imagine a real estate agent drawing a line through your living room and giving half to your neighbor. That's the Vatican, and they didn't even have a key. The line was absurd. Neither Spain nor Portugal had any idea what was actually west of the Atlantic. They were drawing borders on a map that was mostly blank, but that didn't matter. The Pope's authority made it real. A guy in a fancy hat sitting in a palace in Rome decided who owned the Americas, not the people living there, not the people who'd been farming that land for centuries. A guy in a fancy hat in Rome, and the world just said okay.

[00:03:20]That's power, okay? That's real power.

[00:03:22]The ability to say this is God's will and have everyone not belong to it.

[00:03:30]The same church that drew the line also enforced it with torture. The Spanish Inquisition is famous, but it wasn't just in Spain. The Vatican exported it to the colonies. In Goa, India, the Inquisition targeted Hindus, Muslims, and Jews. Books were burned, temples were destroyed, forced conversions were routine. The The was clear. Your soul isn't your soul. The church owns that, too. In the Americas, indigenous and African religious practices were criminalized as idolatry, a colonial crime. You could be whipped for praying to your ancestors and executed for being a witch, which usually meant being a healer that the church didn't control.

[00:04:07]The Inquisition lasted in the Americas until the 19th century. That's nearly 300 years of the Vatican telling people that their gods were demons and their rituals were crimes. And the Pope, well, he blessed it all again and again and again.

[00:04:26]Now we get to the part that should make every Catholic squirm.

[00:04:30]In Canada, the United States, and Australia, the Catholic Church ran residential schools. The goal was to forcibly remove indigenous children from their families, erase their languages, beat their culture out of them, and civilize them into good little Christians. The schools were brutal.

[00:04:45]Children were beaten for speaking their native languages. They were starved.

[00:04:48]They were sexually abused. Thousands died from disease, from neglect, from fire set by staff who didn't bother to install fire escapes. And for decades, the church denied it. When survivors started speaking out, the Vatican said they were lying. When mass graves started being found, hundreds of children buried in unmarked graves on school grounds, the Vatican said they were saddened. Pope Francis finally apologized in 2022. He traveled to Canada. He met with survivors. He said he was sorry. But here's the thing, words aren't reparations. The Vatican still hasn't released full records of what happened. They still haven't paid compensation. They still haven't excommunicated the priests who ran those schools.

[00:05:26]They still haven't opened the archives.

[00:05:28]Survivors asked for documents, the Vatican said no. Survivors asked for money, the Vatican said prayers.

[00:05:33]Survivors asked for justice, the Vatican said we're sorry.

[00:05:37]But nothing has been done.

[00:05:44]So, in 2023, the Vatican formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery 530 years later. The statement said the doctrine was not an expression of the Catholic faith and had been manipulated by colonial powers. In other words, that thing we said 500 years ago, that was actually a mistake that ruined the world, but we don't want any responsibility. But also not really a mistake because we didn't mean it like that. Also, we're not changing anything.

[00:06:08]The Vatican didn't repeal the original papal bulls. They just said they were manipulated. The same church that claims infallibility on matters of faith and morals and now saying, "Whoops, our bad." But also not really our bad. The irony is breathtaking. The Vatican wants credit for apologizing half a millennium late, but ask a residential school survivor if we're sorry it pays for therapy. Ask an indigenous community in Canada if a press release digs up the graves. Ask the United Nation if a repudiation gives them back their land.

[00:06:34]The doctrine of discovery is dead, officially, technically. But its ghost still haunts courthouses, classrooms, and confessionals.

[00:06:46]The Vatican drew the line. The Vatican blessed the chains. The Vatican ran the schools. And when the world demanded answers, the Vatican offered prayers.

[00:06:54]The Pope doesn't draw lines anymore. But the lines he drew are still with us.

[00:06:59]Think about that the next time you see a Catholic church standing on land that used to belong to someone else. Which is basically every Catholic church in the Americas. This is the oldest con in history. Convince people that God is on your side, steal everything they have, and then apologize five centuries later like that fixes anything.

[00:07:18]>> [sighs and gasps] the Vatican. This has been the Donas Black Show. Stay sharp, stay vigilant, and don't listen to them crazy ass people over there. If you ever hear someone say it's God's will, ask who's God and who's doing the willing because man, people use God's name in vain and evil so much, bro. I'm sick of this man. God like flood them, god damn it. See you in the next video. Peace.