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US-born Pope Leo XIV apologized for the Vatican's 15th-century role in legitimizing slavery. In his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he called it a "wound in Christian memory."
Oxford's Anthea Butler and Rev. Christopher J. Kellerman praised this pardon. The pope linked colonial-era oppression to new exploitation forms driven by modern AI.
This marks the Holy See's first systemic apology for the slave trade, reaffirming human dignity.
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