Pope’s Apology on Slavery Praise by Jesuit as A Turn to Reconciliation

Descendants of enslaved people once owned and sold by the Jesuits, along with Black Catholic leaders and scholars, are welcoming a historic apology issued by Pope Leo XIV for the Catholic Church’s role in slavery. The apology appears in Magnifica Humanitas, the pope’s first encyclical. While the document primarily addresses artificial intelligence and human dignity, one passage has […]