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Posted on 05/26/2026 8:01:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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 less apologized for, the role that past popes played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave "infidels." ...
In 1452, for example, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, which gave the Portuguese king and his successors the right "to invade, conquer, fight and subjugate" and take all possessions — including land — of "Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ" anywhere...
In his encyclical, Leo recalled that his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was the first pope to explicitly condemn slavery in 1888, long after many countries had abolished it. Before that, in antiquity and the Middle Ages, church institutions and even popes — Gregory the Great — had slaves...
According to genealogical research published by Henry Louis Gates Jr., 17 of Leo's American ancestors were Black, listed in census records as mulatto, Black, Creole or a free person of color. His family tree includes slaveholders and enslaved people, Gates wrote in The New York Times...
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Perhaps is holiness can condemn God and Jesus for allowing it, too.
When does he apologize for the pedo priests?
Excellent observation!
Jesus did not condemn slavery.
Perhaps il Papa should focus his apologies on supporting Islam which supported the slave trade for some 1300 years.
The Old Testament allowed for divorce, polygamy, the New Testament does not. Re: slavery, there were guidelines in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, complete equality of souls is the rule. But slaves were taught to live out their faith within the confines of their government, which was obviously a pagan (Roman) regime. The Christian model of leadership is servant leadership and freedom in Christ.
He ought to apologize for the homosexual clergy who molested innocent boys.
The actual slaves themselves had no comment.
I’m sure the apology from the High Imam of Saudi Arabia will be coming any minute now...
The abolition movement began in churches. Largely Protestant as far as the US was concerned.
The Bible doesn’t say monarchy is bad. The Bible doesn’t say a republic is good. What it does say is what our Declaration of Independence echoes. That all men are created equal.
We are free and equal under God, in Christ.
This is what America was founded upon, and many of our own slave-owning, Bible-reading founders had their own stirs of conscience over the matter. It led to Civil War.
The Bible says love your neighbor as yourself.
The Bible says leaders and masters are to become like slaves.
The Bible says all of us are slaves of Christ, He is the one master. He is the one true King.
Frank 2.0 again?
Leo XIV’s job is to complete the globalist plan of turning the Catholic Church into a woke political and social-engineering operation.
The caste system in Hinduism is pretty awful. And it's not like all Buddhists are saintly either. But it's not the Catholic Church's job to speak for them. Slavery in the Western World was largely a pagan construct, but Christians assimilated to the sin.
He is very misguided and misinformed.
More to the point: Ephesians 6:5.
No Pope Francis did not address this issue the way Pope Leo has.
Of course Paul also called himself a slave--a slave of Christ Jesus (Romans 1.1).
The popes have called themselves servus servorum Dei--"the slave of the slaves of God." I think Gregory I may be started that.
Christians enslaved pagans in the Middle Ages--the term "slave" comes from the ethnic term Slav because so many pagan Slavs were enslaved. But somehow the problem doesn't become important until the people being enslaved are not white.
1) A globalist head of state.
2) An American leftist.
It's all about de-legitimizing the United States.
For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
- 1 Corinthians 7:22
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