Pope Leo: “The Greatest Destroyer of Peace Today is Abortion”

Pope Leo XIV invoked the words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to declare that “the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion,” urging young political innovators to reject policies that deny life to the unborn in a powerful defense of human dignity.

In an address to participants in the “Political Innovation Hackathon: One Humanity, One Planet,” the pontiff called Mother Teresa’s 1994 statement at the United States National Prayer Breakfast “prophetic,” adding that “no policy can genuinely...