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Recently, our great Pontiff, Leo XIII, borrowed St. Paul’s words in his Encyclical to the Bishops of Brazil. By virtue of the Apostle’s teaching, he condemned slavery saying that its very existence among Christians is a crime.

Farewell, my dear Sons, goodbye, you who are the highest honour of my ministry and of the reviving African Church.

They accuse it of human ambition; and yet you sacrifice everything to your duty, to the giving up of your life, with no hope except the austere joy of sacrifice and heavenly reward!

Do not be surprised, then, that a bishop, commissioned by the Holy See with part of the immense countries where this slavery still reigns supreme, I condemn it, by the holy altars, with the freedom of my ministry, and in the name of my God, I vow him a merciless war and I declare it anathema.