This weekend, I delivered a talk at an event organised by a Catholic men’s group, titled ‘The Catholic Church and the Ending of Slavery.’On several occasions previously, the Church condemned the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But Pope Leo XIII, referring to slavery as a “gloomy plague”, called for Catholics to align themselves with the abolitionist movement of his time – and was instrumental in achieving the great good of finally ending slavery.

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