At the Easter Sunday celebration in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV delivered a bracing message about the war in Iran: “Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace!” he said. “Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people.”
Pope Leo didn’t name names. He didn’t have to. This was a shot at Donald Trump. In the abstract, the pope’s words might apply to any number of leaders, including Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. But the press are taking this as a shot against President Trump—and that is how it was meant.
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