The Catholic Church And Slavery

[Cure of Ars]

This is a really good article on The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery.

[url="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/128/53.0.html"]http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/128/53.0.html[/url]

I think that it is especially good because it is a non-Catholic source. It makes it immune to the charge of Catholic bias.

Edited June 21, 2004 by Cure of Ars

[phatcatholic]

ohhh, good stuff. i have a section on "the church and slavery" in the "history" entry.

this link will make a good addition

thanks,
phatcatholic

[phatcatholic]

here are the other articles i have collected on the subject:

[b]The Church and Slavery[/b]
--[url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/links/jump.cgi?ID=707"]Slavery[/url]
--[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14036a.htm"]Slavery and Christianity[/url]
--[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14039a.htm"]Ethical Aspect of Slavery[/url]
--[url="http://users.binary.net/polycarp/slave.html"]Slavery and the Catholic Church[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/links/jump.cgi?ID=963"]The Popes and Slavery: A Book Review[/url]
--[url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/POPSLAVE.htm"]The Popes and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/links/jump.cgi?ID=706"]Let My People Go: The Catholic Church and Slavery[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/links/jump.cgi?ID=4041"]Ending the "Slavocracy"[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4913"]Catholicae Ecclesiae (On Slavery In The Missions)[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4842"]In Plurimis (On The Abolition Of Slavery)[/url]
--[url="http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5745"]Sublimus Dei: On the Enslavement and Evangelization of Indians in the New World[/url]

pax christi,
phatcatholic

[MorphRC]

WOW. Im surprised CT.com actually published such a thing. As in...not anti-catholic. And they give sources!

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I believe this was due to the extreme Protestant biases of historians, who may also have been scornful of the pope's predicating his attack on the assumption that Satan was the cause of slavery:
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Good on'em I say

Great article. Thx