Slavery

The U.S. Catholic bishops have released a national prayer service text commemorating its immigrants and refugees, as well as those trafficked into slavery.

The mission is to “treat others the way we want to be treated … because quite honestly, we’re all one in Christ,” Bishop Campbell said.

“It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many,” Pope Leo XIV said.

(OSV News) — The Vatican’s top diplomat to the United Nations condemned modern and historical slavery — while countering what he called a “partial narrative” in a newly adopted U.N. resolution …

Gloria Purvis said the display’s removal was “a larger part … of erasing the Black experience as well as Black accomplishments from American history.”

The “Honoring Those Who Were Enslaved” project is the result of “engagements with the community of descendants of enslaved people in Maryland.”

Black Catholics throughout U.S. history contributed to the country’s unity and freedom.

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