He Pope Leo XIV lashed out at warmongers and urged billions of people around the world to embrace peace and to return to “believing in love, in moderation, in good policy“.
In one of his appeals most fervent yet to end the conflict ravaging Middle Eaststated that faith is needed “to face together, as humanity and with humanity, this dramatic hour of history.”
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of strength!Enough of the war! True strength is manifested in the service of life,” declared the American pope in a speech delivered in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
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Delivered in a measured tone, as is usual in the leader of the 1.4 billion Catholics of the world, the words of León, 70 years old, nevertheless represented one of the reviews most forceful to date to the wave of conflicts that whips the planet.
“Dear brothers and sisters, without a doubt the rulers of nations have unavoidable responsibilities. To them we shout: stop!It’s time of peace! Sit at dialogue and mediation tables! Not at tables where the rearmament and they deliberate death actions“, asked the Pope.
As he has done in the past, the American and nationalized Peruvian pontiff did not mention any politician by name or point to any specific country.
The responsibility also falls on the “immense multitude” that repudiates the war, León stated, urging them to build a “Kingdom of peace.”
The pontiff painted a gloomy picture of the current state of the world, “in which the tombs seem not to be enough, because crucifying“, annihilating life, without right and without mercy.”
Leo XIV, elected pope last May after the death of his predecessor Francisis moderate and known for build bridges.
However, it increasingly denounces the conflicts that divide the world and has repeatedly urged the de-escalation in the current war between the United States and Israel against Iran already the need for a diplomatic solution.
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