A Wound in Christian Memory: The Vatican Apologized for Authorizing the Slave Trade. The U.S., Israel and Argentina Voted Against Calling It the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.

Pope Leo XIV issued the most specific papal apology for slavery in history. The same week, the United States, Israel, and Argentina cast the only votes against a UN resolution declaring the slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.
A Wound in Christian Memory: The Vatican Apologized for Authorizing the Slave Trade. The U.S., Israel and Argentina Voted Against Calling It the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.

The contrast does not require interpretation. It requires only a reading of the record. In the span of two months, two institutions confronted the same history and reached opposite conclusions....