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Pope Leon XIV's Unprecedented Apology for Atlantic Slavery

Ana Lucia Araujo · 25 May 2026

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  1. an apology is a symbolic gesture of recognition of wrongdoing that can be followed or not by symbolic reparations and financial and material reparations.
  2. In other words, broadly speaking, reparations for the victims of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery and their descendants never happened
  3. The Catholic Church made its wealth from slavery.

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