Pope Leo offers to mediate between world leaders to end wars

Pope Leo offers Vatican as mediator in global conflicts, pledging to make ‘every effort’ for peace

Pope Leo XIV pledged on Wednesday to make “every effort” for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war was “never inevitable”.

ROME.- “Peace is built in the heart and from the heart, uprooting pride and demands, and measuring language, because it can also be hurt and killed with words, not only with arms.” In his first speech to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See and on his eighth day as a pontiff, Leo XIV again gave clues of his papacy. Born 69 years ago in Chicago, but Peruvian of adoption because there he was first missionary and then bishop, he stressed…

In his first address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, the pontiff outlined the pillars of the Church's missionary action. In the Clementine Room, he underlined the link between religious freedom and peace."Respire multilateral diplomacy."Reaffirmed the "no" to arms: "Stop producing instruments of death."Remember today's challenges, such as migration, environment and artificial intelligence. Cardinal ...

Pope Leo to diplomats: Church will always speak truth, work for justice

"Religions and interreligious dialogue can make a fundamental contribution to fostering a climate of peace," the pope said.

'Close the disputes, follow the path of dialogue', says the Pope to the diplomatic corps. Then he calls to 'invest on the family, founded on the stable union between man and woman' (ANSA)

Pope Leo XIV follows the path traced by Bergoglio and returns to speak again of peace, after having guaranteed, in recent days the greatest effort of the Church to stop the violence. Peace does not mean, however, "mere absence of war and conflict" or "a simple respite," a moment of rest between one issue and the other, because, as far as efforts are being made, tensions are always present, a bit like the fire that hatches under the ashes, ready …