Pope Leo apologizes for Catholic Church's past support for slavery
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical Monday, outlining his priorities in leading the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. While the focus of "Magnificent Humanity" was heavily on his concerns about AI, the pontiff also apologized for one of the Church's historic wrongs: supporting the slave trade. Also, Colombia has faced a dramatic increase in violence in the weeks leading up to its presidential election this weekend. And, with the Strait of Hormuz having now been closed for 88 days, the impact of the closure, along with the US-Israel war with Iran that triggered it, is intensifying rifts among Gulf countries. Plus, The World takes a spin through Dubai’s vinyl-collecting scene.
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| 0:31.2 | War in Iran has put pressure on Gulf states, pulling them further apart. |
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| 0:55.2 | Also, at the Vatican, Leo just became the first Pope to recognize the church's role in slavery and apologize for it. |
| 1:02.8 | The Pope is saying, look, we've made this mistake before, too. |
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