Pope Leo XIV Makes Historic Apology for Vatican's Role in Slavery

Source: PBS News HourPope Leo XIV made a historic apology Monday for the Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the papal 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 less apologized for—the role that past popes played in giving kings and queens explicit authority to enslave...