The sublime God so loved the human race that he created man in such wise that he might participate, not only in [he good that other creatures enjoy, but endowed him with capacity to attain to [he inaccessible and invisible supreme good and behold it face to face. . . . [The devil's] satellites have published abroad that the Indians of the West and the South, and other people of whom we have recent knowledge should be treated as dumb brutes created for our service, pretending that they are incapable of receiving the Catholic faith. . . . [But) the Indians are truly men and they are not only capable of understanding the Catholic faith but, according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it. Desiring to provide ample remedy for these evils, we define and declare . . notwithstanding whatever may be said to the contrary, the said Indians and all other people who may later be discovered by Christians, are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, even though they be outside the faith of Jesus. . .