Pope Leo XIV: If you want peace, prepare institutions of peace

Pope Leo XIV echoed Pope Francis, who said that “building peace starts by standing alongside victims and seeing things from their point of view.” “This approach is essential,” he said, “for disarming hearts, approaches, and mentalities, and for denouncing the injustices of a system that kills and is based on the throwaway culture.

The pope highlighted the “courageous embrace” of an Israeli and a Palestinian, each of whom had had family members killed during the conflict in Gaza. “They are now friends and work with one another,” the Pope said, adding that their gesture “remains as a testimony and sign of hope.”

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