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Pope Leo XIV Apologizes for Vatican Slavery Role

Pope Leo XIV issued a historic apology for the Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery through 15th-century papal bulls. The apology, in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, acknowledged centuries of failure to condemn the practice, calling it a "wound in Christian memory."