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The Holy See's Secretary of State says “People are suffering in Gaza, Ukraine and Iran. Kyiv has the right to defend itself. Peace requires a return to fundamental human values.”...
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Whenever humanity faces radical change, the church brings its understanding of the human person to the deeper questions that inevitably arise....
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Pope Leo XIV discusses conflicts and the economic interests that sustain them, saying the Church “continues to raise her voice in proclaiming the Gospel. A few are growing rich from the arms industry; these billions could be used to solve problems such as world hunger.”...
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The suffering of children shows why refugees matter and why we should continue to accompany them and to plead their cause. For human beings to live decently, not being killed or allowed to die is not enough....
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World peace begins at home in the quiet strengths within our personal relationships. They are such things as patience, readiness to forgive and respect for others....
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The Christian conscience is not permitted the comfort of cognitive dissonance. We do not get to condemn tyranny selectively, mourn some victims and not others, or excuse in a friend what we would rightly denounce in an enemy....
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In his Message for the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Leo warns that war has consequences that destroy far beyond the battlefield and says that we are to imitate the Lord's offering of peace to work toward peace in the world....
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The President subsequently held talks at the Secretariat of State focused on the agreement signed by the United States, Israel, and Lebanon. The Holy See expressed concern over the difficulties in implementing the agreement and assured its support for efforts to that end....
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Wars have always caused needless suffering, destruction and death. But 81 years ago today, the hell of war reached a new all-time immoral low when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing over 70,000....