<p><i>This is a developing story that will be updated throughout the day. Refresh the page for the latest news.</i></p><p>VATICAN CITY — Mayor Brandon Johnson said the most memorable thing about his private meeting Thursday with Pope Leo XIV was the "real exchange with one of the most influential global religious leaders around how the legacy of slavery has had a devastating impact on our globe." </p><p>That and the role the church and government can play "is what’s sticking out the most for me right now," he said during a news conference shortly after the meeting.</p><p>Leo on Monday had used his first papal encyclical to apologize for the role the church played in legitimizing what he called the “scourge of slavery” and failing to condemn it for centuries.</p><p>On Thursday, Johnson gave the pope a letter, inviting him to come to Chicago to deliver Mass in Grant Park in 2027. [<a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2026/05/28/pope-leo-grant-park-mass-invite-brandon-johnson" >Read the text of the letter.</a>]</p><p>Johnson said he and the pope also talked about the mayor's City Council vote calling for ceasefire in Gaza, endless wars, conditions people are living through whether in Chicago, Haiti or Venezuela, reparations and why it's important to repair harm caused by the "brutal legacy of slavery" and affordability.</p><p>Johnson and his delegation spent about an hour with Leo during their meeting at around 4 p.m.
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