“Lay Down Your Weapons!” — Pope Leo XIV Decries War in First Easter Address

Leo XIV’s Urbi et Orbi capped a Holy Week in which the Catholic Church challenged the Trump-Vance White House’s Iran War at every turn — from Palm Sunday through Easter morning.

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On Easter Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV stood before more than fifty thousand faithful in St. Peter’s Square and proclaimed the resurrection as an act of entirely nonviolent love.

He then walked …