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  "path": "/2026/05/28/pope-leo-xiv-makes-historic-apology-for-vaticans-role-in-legitimizing-slavery/",
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  "textContent": "Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.” Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope had ever publicly acknowledged, much […]",
  "title": "Pope Leo XIV Makes Historic Apology for Vatican’s Role in Legitimizing Slavery"
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