Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155
Posted by ThatBlackGuy_
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Right when MAGA is trying to resurrect the confederacy and re-instate segregation, as it imports South African whites to help with the implementation of the US Apartheid desired by the technofascists Thiel and Musk.
I hope he’s working on his apology to women for maintaining them as second class citizens who cannot be clergy. Other mainstream religions long ago ditched this absurd policy or never had it.
Long list of apologies awaits
Thanks! You’re only a couple centuries late but hey…
BP oil spill apology energy
FINALLY.
Edit: why the downvotes?
Idk, seems to me this is their cross to bear.
Better late than never ahh apology.
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So we can expect an aplogy for the churches role in WW2 in 2260?
Pope Paul III’s bull Sublimis dei in 1537 condemned slavery and even included an automatic excommunication for everyone that attempted to enslave any people (contrary to popular belief it was mostly Native Americans but it also included Africans or undiscovered races and not only the already Christianised ones as said the bull from 1435), but don’t expect kings to actually follow the teachings of the church and religion they claim to follow.
The Bible is not consistent on a lot of things from front to back, but one thing it is consistent on is that God is totally cool with slavery. From rules about selling your daughters into slavery to rules about taking slaves in war, all the way to the New Testament where it tells slaves to love their masters, the Bible is down bad for slavery. It’s fine to beat your slave so hard they spend days dying of internal bleeding or ruptured organs. After all, when your slave dies the real victim is you. (I’m not making that up, it’s really there in Exodus.)
So, it’s not surprising that the church was so pro-slavery for so long.
I’m glad they’re apologizing for it, but obviously I would prefer they all wake up and realize that the Bible and the religions founded on it are chock full of hate and morally objectionable ideas about what is good and what is not and do some soul-searching about what God could have allowed them to be so awful for so long without saying shit about it (hint: there is actually no magic man in the sky guiding things, it’s a book written by humans for humans and an institution founded and run by humans).
I got a feeling that last 2 popes have been actually trying to make Catholicism better.
There has never been a more Christian pope
Anything on his priests molesting little boys? Anything? Hello?
Oh that’s right; there’s no mileage with the left-wing media for discussing that.
No wonder that Catholics are leaving the Church in droves.
Ofc this sub is complaining about this lol. Gee I wonder why.
Good job on the Pope
While still protecting priests who abuse children?
p.s. No apology for aiding Adolf Hitler to attain statehood?
No worries.