In a blunt Palm Sunday sermon, Pope Leo XIV implicitly criticized the world powers behind the war in Iran, arguing that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war but rejects them.” Christopher White, the author of “Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy,” talks with Host Carolyn Beeler about Pope Leo’s comments and the Vatican’s historical response to wars.
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