New Pope Vows Efforts to End World Wars
Pope Leo XIV has said that the Holy See is ready to mediate between ‘enemies’ to end wars in the world.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Vatican News.
"I will make every effort to spread this peace. The Holy See is open to provide a space for enemies to meet and face each other, for peoples to be restored to hope and to be restored to the dignity they deserve, the dignity of peace. The peoples are striving for peace, and I say to the leaders of the peoples with my hand on my heart: let's meet, let's have a dialogue and negotiations," said Leo XIV on Wednesday, receiving pilgrims who arrived in Rome as part of the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches.
He also believes that wars are not a necessary component of relations between nations.
"Weapons can and should be silenced, because they do not solve problems, but only increase them; because history will remember the one who sows peace, not the one who reaps victims; because others are not primarily enemies, but people: not villains to be hated, but people to be talked to. Let us reject the Manichaean vision that is characteristic of violent narratives that divide the world into good and bad," the pontiff added.
As The Gaze reported earlier, in his first Sunday address as the newly elected leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV used his traditional midday blessing to issue a heartfelt plea for peace in Ukraine.