• Says Holy See’s record a ‘wound in Christian memory’
•Denounces new form of colonialism fueled by rush for AI chips
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
Pope Leo XIV yesterday made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimising slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”
Although past popes have apologised for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologised for the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.”
