{"id":83012,"date":"2026-05-25T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83012"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:01:13","slug":"in-encyclical-pope-apologizes-for-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-encyclical-pope-apologizes-for-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"In Encyclical, Pope Apologizes For Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-vatican-africa-race-082b240dc063e5e382a76bf278cb18e8\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span> made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican\u2019s record a \u201cwound in Christian memory.\u201d\u00a0Past popes have apologized for Christians\u2019 involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave \u201cinfidels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">History\u2019s first U.S.-born Pope, <\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pope-leo-creole-roots-new-orleans-black-b5794961d9582941413fe3154b30cc87\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">whose family history<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, \u201cMagnifica Humanitas,\u201d (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779696056\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"In Encyclical, Pope Apologizes For Slavery\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: \u00a0Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83014,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83012\/revisions\/83014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}