Pope calls for peace, says Christians ‘cannot remain silent’ before war

ROME – Pope Leo XIV Sunday issued another fervent plea for peace in the Middle East and in all global hot-spots, urging leaders to open genuine spaces of dialogue amid the mounting human cost of the world’s conflicts.

Speaking to those gathered in a drizzly St. Peter’s Square for his March 22 Sunday Angelus address, the pope said he continued “to follow with dismay the situation in the Middle East as well as other regions of the world lacerated by war and violence.”

“We...