Normally I think a sound policy of any contemporary Pope is to advise the Caesars of the world, when possible, to attempt to avoid war. However, the problem with Pope Leo and the Iran War has been his stridency, misstating Church teaching on war, interspersed with perfunctory remarks against atrocities committed by the Iran regime. Pacifism, which is the defacto stance of the Vatican, gives support to the worst of regimes on the planet and is cold comfort for the subjects of tyrannies. I admit it is often a tight rope walk for popes, but they knew the job was hard before they agreed to take it.
Stop. The. Plane. Conferences. Holiness.
Wish he’d get The Cross right-
which would/does solve every thing.
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Don, you should write a book to accumulate all the [insert Popes’ name here] “would beg to differ.” Since the beginning of Pope Francis and apparently continuing, there should be plenty of material.