Pope Leo XIV Apologizes for Church’s Role in Slavery

Pope Leo XIV drops a historic bombshell: his first-ever apology for the Vatican’s role in justifying slavery through centuries-old papal bulls. In his encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas,” he calls it a “wound in Christian memory,” linking past papal endorsements of colonialism and slavery to today’s AI-driven exploitation and global labor abuses. He acknowledges it took 18 centuries for the Church to formally reject slavery, and while the Vatican officially repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery in 2023, this direct apology—coming from the first U.S.-born pope with ties to both enslavers and the enslaved—marks a seismic moment in reckoning with the Church’s past and present moral failures. Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/557a77dbd579c410