I like this Pope.
In the encyclical Leo issued today, he finally — finally — did what the church should have done forever ago, and asked for forgiveness for the Vatican's past role in legitimizing the international slave trade. (AP story here.) Quoting that story:
In 2023, the Vatican formally repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, but it never formally rescinded, abrogated or rejected the bulls [that] authorized Portuguese sovereigns to conquer Africa and the Americas and enslave non-Christians.... [One] bull also gave the Portuguese permission “to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”
Moving forward, unlike some of people we could mention.
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