National Catholic Reporter

In AI encyclical, Pope Leo moves church's needle on slavery, just war

Though Pope Leo XIV's nearly 43,000-word teaching document largely looks to the future, warning of the moral risks of humanity's rapid entry into the age of artificial intelligence, it also revisited ...
Reuters

Pope Leo apologises for Church's historic role in slavery

Pope Leo says Church was slow to condemn slavery Pope offers clearest apology yet for Church role Calls the legacy "a wound in Christian memory" VATICAN CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Monday ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Leo XIV's visit to an African church linked to slavery reflects on his own complex heritage

The Church of Our Lady of Muxima was built by Portuguese colonizers in Angola at the end of the 16th century as part of a fortress complex and became a hub in the slave trade. It remains a reminder of ...
America Magazine

Interview: What Pope Leo’s apology for the church’s role in slavery means to Black Catholics

Former New York Times journalist Rachel L. Swarns, author of the bestseller "The 272 – The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church," speaks during a Feb. 1, 2024, ...
Washington Examiner

Pope Leo apologizes for Catholic Church’s legitimizing of slavery: ‘Wound in Christian memory’

Pope Leo XIV apologized on Monday for the Catholic Church’s legitimization of slavey, saying the delay in denouncing the practice was a “wound in Christian memory.” Leo, the first American pope, ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for the Catholic Church’s role in legitimizing slavery

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, right, talks to theologian Leocadie Lushombo during the presentation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person ...