'My family were both slaves and slaveowners' Pope Leo

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In an interview broadcast in connection with the Canticle for Peace event at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV has tonight said that his family history contains both ‘slaves’ and ‘slaveowners’.

'My family were both slaves and slave owners'

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