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By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia | The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”
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By Isabella Piro
“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”
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The Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee mourns the passing of our fourth bishop, Most Rev. John H. Ricard, SSJ, who died on Wednesday May 20, 2026 at the age of 86.
Funeral arrangements (as of May 25)
Washington, D.C. | June 1, 2026
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
Visitation begins at 10 a.m. ET
Funeral Mass begins at 11 a.m. ET
Pensacola, FL | June 5, 2026
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
Visitation begins at 10 a.m. CT
Memorial Mass begins 11 a.m. CT
Livestream at ptdiocese.org/funeral
Bishop Ricard will be laid to rest at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
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By Barb Fraze | The Catholic Review
Retired Bishop John H. Ricard, the first Black bishop of both the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., and a nationally respected advocate for racial justice, died May 20 at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Washington, D.C. He was 86.
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