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If we review the teachings and comments on war from the popes of the last century, most especially from the end of World War II up to the present, we find a strong and constant refrain of “no” to war. There is a striking consistency in this realm of papal teaching, emphasizing again and again that war is not God’s will and is always a sign of human failure.
Pope Leo opened Holy Week in Rome on Palm Sunday, March 29, by making a passionate appeal for peace as the world is torn by war, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine, but also in Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He said: “Christ, King of Peace, cries out again from his cross: ‘God is love! Have mercy! Lay down your weapons! Remember that you are brothers and sisters!’”
THE MEEK ARE NO LONGER INHERITING THE EARTH |
It is one thing for people to say that strength, force, and power are in fact what govern the world, but it is dangerously wrong to try to throw a Christian cloak over this. In brief, this is the antithesis of Jesus, as the Gospels make clear. |
VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has shared his advice for how to discern one’s vocation, starting with the importance of creating space for interior silence to “hear what the Lord desires for our happiness.”
In Pope Leo’s first message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, published by the Vatican March 25, the pope wrote that “a vocation entails an intimate dialogue with the One who calls and invites us to respond, despite the deafening noise of the world, with true joy and generosity.”
