Pope Leo Seeks Forgiveness for Catholic Church’s Involvement in the Slave Trade ...

The video explains how sugar demand, European expansion, plantation economics, coastal trade networks, and legal slavery ...

In a sweeping encyclical on AI and human dignity, the first U.S.-born pope confronts centuries of Catholic complicity in the ...

In a new message, Pope Leo XIV has gone farther than any of his predecessors in apologizing for the Holy See’s role in ...

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France's colonies.

The West African nation was one of the main gateways for the transatlantic slave trade.

Pope Leo XIV issued a historic apology for the Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery, linking past injustices to new threats ...

In Paragraph 176 of his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo XIV issues a historic apology for the Catholic ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...