Pp. Leo sent a message to the Chaldean (uniate) Church.
As they visit Rome for the election of their new Patriarch, members of the Chaldean Church of Baghdad met with Pope Leo XIV in the Apostolic Palace on Friday morning....
...Closing his message, Pope Leo reminded members of the Chaldean Catholic Church they “are signs of hope in a world marked by absurd and inhumane violence, which in these times, driven by greed and hatred, spreads ferociously in the very lands that saw the rise of salvation."
However, he warned, nothing is more important than the lives of the weakest, children, and families—“no cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.”
Be “tireless workers for peace” in Jesus’ name. You are called, the Pope stressed, to be “never on the side of those who yesterday wielded the sword and today launch bombs.”
OK, then, Pp. Leo.
We await your condemnation of all the Crusades, the sailors at Lepanto, and Don John of Poland.
We could name others who "wielded the sword," but let's start there.
OK??
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