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VATICAN CITY<\/strong> | Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See\u2019s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican\u2019s record a \u201cwound in Christian memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past popes have apologized for Christians\u2019 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 \u201cinfidels.\u201d<\/p>\n

History\u2019s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, \u201cMagnifica Humanitas,\u201d (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.<\/p>\n

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The sweeping manifesto is about safeguarding humanity in an era of increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. Leo raised the slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling.<\/p>\n

Black American Catholics, activists and scholars have long called for the Holy See to atone for its role in the colonial-era trade in human beings, beyond generic apologies for the involvement of individual Christians.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord,\u201d Leo wrote. \u201cFor this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shannen Dee Williams, historian at the University of Dayton and author of the 2022 history of American Black Catholic nuns, \u201cSubversive Habits,\u201d welcomed the apology as a \u201cmonumental step toward the kind of essential truth-telling and reparation that many Catholics have prayed and worked to witness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Catholic Church has never been an innocent bystander in the history of white supremacy,\u201d said Williams. \u201cBlack Catholics have waited a long time to hear the Vatican speak honestly about the church\u2019s leading roles in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery\u2013and thus by extension the enduring systems of anti-Black racism in the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Centuries of legitimizing slavery for European colonizers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vatican has insisted that it always upheld the dignity of all human beings as children of God. But a series of 15th-century directives from the Vatican authorized Portuguese sovereigns to conquer Africa and the Americas and enslave non-Christians.<\/p>\n

In 1452, for example, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas, which gave the Portuguese king and his successors the right \u201cto invade, conquer, fight and subjugate\u201d and take all possessions \u2014 including land \u2014 of \u201cSaracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ\u201d anywhere.<\/p>\n

The bull also gave the Portuguese permission \u201cto reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

That bull and another issued three years later, Romanus Pontifex, formed the basis of the Doctrine of Discovery, the theory that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of land in Africa and the Americas.<\/p>\n

Nicholas V\u2019s permissions to the Portuguese were confirmed or renewed by Pope Callixtus III in 1456, Pope Sixtus IV in 1481 and Pope Leo X in 1514, according to the Rev. Christopher J. Kellerman, a Jesuit priest and author of \u201cAll Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spanish kings received the rights for the Americas<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2023, the Vatican formally repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, but it never formally rescinded, abrogated or rejected the bulls themselves. The Vatican insists that a later bull, Sublimis Deus in 1537, reaffirmed that Indigenous peoples shouldn\u2019t be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, and weren\u2019t to be enslaved.<\/p>\n

Holy See late to condemn slavery, Leo says<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \u2014 Gregory the Great \u2014 had slaves, Kellerman said.<\/p>\n

In acknowledging the 15th century papal bulls, Leo wrote in his encyclical: \u201cAlready in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of \u2018infidels.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Leo said it wasn\u2019t possible to judge the morality of the decisions with today\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the church came to denounce the scourge of slavery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The pope said that the church has long affirmed the dignity of every human being as the basis of its doctrine, \u201ceven if it took eighteen centuries for its full incompatibility with slavery to be explicitly recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Leo said that the church must firmly condemn all forms of trafficking related to the digital technological revolution \u201cif we want to avoid the need to ask for pardon again in the future for having failed to respect the treasure of human dignity that is required by our faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthea Butler, senior fellow at the Koch History Center, Oxford University, said Leo needed to acknowledge and atone for the church\u2019s complicity in historic slavery if he wanted to credibly \u201cspeak to the current issues of technological enslavement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,\u201d said Butler, who is Black.<\/p>\n

Leo\u2019s own family history and past apologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kellerman, the scholar, welcomed Leo\u2019s apology but said more needs to be done to further acknowledge how the Catholic Church legitimized and expanded slavery.<\/p>\n

\u201cPope Leo has strengthened the moral credibility of the church with this admission and apology today,\u201d he told The Associated Press. \u201cHopefully a future document will explain in more detail the church\u2019s involvement with slaveholding. As a scholar I have some quibbles with the wording, but this is a truly remarkable moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a 1985 visit to Cameroon, St. John Paul II asked forgiveness of Africans for the slave trade on behalf of Christians who participated in it, but not the popes. In a 1992 visit to Goree Island, Senegal, which was the largest slave-trading center in West Africa, he denounced the injustice of slavery and called it a \u201ctragedy of a civilization that called itself Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to genealogical research published by Henry Louis Gates Jr., 17 of Leo\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

During a visit to Angola last month, Leo prayed at a Catholic shrine at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during Portugal\u2019s colonial rule. While at the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima, Leo recalled the \u201csorrow and great suffering\u201d Angolans endured for centuries, but he didn\u2019t refer specifically to slavery.<\/p>\n

Winfield reported from Middletown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP\u2019s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.<\/p>\n

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