Bishop Barron continues his tour against the racial justice movement and this time he tries to say the Catholic Church condemned the practice of slavery even though there many violations of the teaching. Fact check: Pope Paul III Sublimis Deus encyclical was promulgated in 1537.

After that encyclical, 11.2 million Africans were forcibly removed from the continent of Africa and enslaved in the Americas, with around 450,000 coming to the US. The Catholic Church supported this enslavement of Africans and Catholics all over the Americas owned people.

There’s absolutely no way Bishop Barron can claim the Catholic Church has any moral authority at all when it comes to slavery. And even when Pope Gregory XVI condemned the slave trade in 1838, American Catholics did not believe it applied to the domestic slave trade and continued

Barron says that CRT and what he calls “wokeism” wants people to see racism everywhere. Apparently, he has the opposite problem and refuses to acknowledge the truth of what people of African descent actually lived and continue to live through