Pope Francis: "What our Christian faith tells us is that this was a disastrous error, incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

King Keli`i: "Your predecessors committed evil against humanity in the holy name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."

Pope Francis: "I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples."

King Keli`i: "I want to reach out and say I forgive your predecessors, your complicity, and the Roman Catholic Church for their crimes against me, my ancestors, and my nation – the Kingdom of Hawai'i. I am breaking the bonds of anger and disparity to be at peace, a peace that only God can give me. I forgive you."

The Pope: "I fully agree: that is only the first step, the starting point. I also recognize that, “looking to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient” and that, “looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening.”

King Keli`i: "Religion is the direct cause of wars that actually predate the 1100’s to this current day. The Vatican and European Rulers are the evil that has not been called to account for their crimes against Humanity: more precisely, the Indigenous peoples of Africa, Panama, the Pacific Islanders, and the Americas. Speaking as an indigenous man, for humanity to survive we must go back to a spiritual compass rather than a religious conscience."

"The Doctrine fueled white supremacy as white European settlers claimed they were instruments of God, doing the will of God, as proclaimed by the Vatican. They were told that they possessed cultural superiority. Evil spread throughout like a plague — with millions murdered. Women and children were raped and then forced into slavery. Such evil had no rival. The monstrous evil that started from the Vatican in the 1400’s is well and alive in the 20th century."

"Therefore, today, in front of all of you, the World and Almighty God, on this 19th day of May, 2022, I, Edmund Keli`i Silva II, the Hereditary King of the Kingdom of Hawai`i – Nou Ke Akua Ke Aupuni O Hawai`i, am not asking, but DIRECTING the Vatican’s Chief Magistrate Pope Francis . . . to personally apologize to all the Indigenous Nations that were negatively impacted by this Decree issued by his ancestors, Pope Nicholas V and Pope Alexander VI, for crimes against Humanity — Africa, England, the Americas, Hawai’i, France, New Zealand, Panama City, Panama, The United States of America, Netherlands, and all Nations vastly impacted by European Royals must also apologize for their crimes against Indigenous nations."

"The Vatican must apologize, and OVERTURN the Doctrine of Discovery and seek forgiveness from All Native American Indians, Africans, the Kingdom of Hawai’i, the Western Hemisphere, Canada, and all Polynesian Islands, and indigenous nations around the world for its crimes against Humanity."