If Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping had set out to diminish the moral witness of the papacy, they couldn’t have inflicted more damage than the Vatican itself caused in the past week. Rome’s blinkered position on war didn’t originate with Pope Leo XIV. But unless this pope steers the Catholic Church back to its own teachings on this fraught topic, it risks being dismissed even by sympathizers.
At the moment the Vatican is almost guaranteeing its wisdom will be ignored by those who need it most.
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