“Violence Is Never the Right Choice” — Pope Leo XIV Laments “War Again” In Middle East

He told the world to stop a war. Then he sat with mothers of addicted children in the Quarticciolo.

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On Sunday afternoon, Pope Leo XIV stepped out of his car and into the Quarticciolo — one of Rome’s most dangerous neighborhoods and one of its largest open-air drug markets. It …