caetera but still leaving the colonizers the duty of converting the native people. Prein (2008) observes the difficulty in reconciling these decrees with Inter caetera. Father Gustavo Gutierrez describes Sublimis Deus as the most important papal document relating to the condition of native Indians and that it was addressed to all Christians. Maxwell (1975) notes that the bull did not change the traditional teaching that the enslavement of Indians was permissible if they were considered "enemies of Christendom" as this would be considered by the Church as a "just war". Stogre (1992) further argues that the Indian nations had every right to self-defense. Rodney Stark (2003) describes the bull as "magnificent" and believes the reason that, in his opinion, it has belatedly come to light is due to the neglect of Protestant historians. Falola asserts that the bull related to the native populations of the New World and did not condemn the transatlantic African slave trade stimulated by the Spanish monarchy and the Holy Roman Emperor. See also Protector of the Indians Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery Laws of Burgos References Sources The problem of slavery in Western culture, David Brion Davis, Oxford University Press US, 1988, Indigenous peoples and human rights, Patrick Thornberry, Manchester University Press, 2002, Slavery and the Catholic Church, The history of Catholic teaching concerning the moral legitimacy of the institution of slavery, John Francis Maxwell, 1975, Chichester Barry-Rose, The Popes and Slavery, Father Joel S Panzer, The Church In History Centre, 22 April 2008 , retrieved 9 August 2009 That the world may believe: the development of Papal social thought on aboriginal rights, Michael Stogre S.J, Médiaspaul, 1992, "The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery", Rodney Stark, Christianity Today, 7 January 2003 The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery Encyclopedia of the middle passage, Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, = That the world may believe: the development of Papal social thought on aboriginal rights, Michael Stogre S.J, Médiaspaul, 1992, Religions and the abolition of slavery - a comparative approach, W. G. Clarence-Smith Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith | Staff | SOAS University of London, Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa, University of London, retrieved 11 August 2009 The Encyclopedia Of Christianity, Volume 5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008, Christianity in the Caribbean: essays on church history, Armando Lampe, 2001, University of the West Indies Press, Further