Vatican City.- Pope
Leo XIV asked those responsible for the world to be
"aware of their responsibility for the consequences of their decisions on populations, without ignoring the needs of the most vulnerable or the universal desire for peace", in an appeal after the Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square.
"Dear brothers and sisters, let us continue to pray for the end of the war," said the American pontiff looking out the window of the pontifical palace before hundreds of faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square.
He recalled that in these days the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "has revived worldwide the necessary rejection of war as a means of resolving conflicts".
And he added:
"Those who make decisions must always be aware of their responsibility for the consequences of their decisions on populations, without ignoring the needs of the most vulnerable or the universal longing for peace."
In this regard, he congratulated Armenia and Azerbaijan on the recent declaration of peace and wished that
"this event will contribute to a stable and lasting peace in the Caucasus."
During his reflection before the Angelus, Leo XIV entrusted himself to Mary so that "she may help us to be, in a world marked by so many divisions, sentinels of mercy and peace, as taught by Saint John Paul II and as shown to us so beautifully by the young people who came to Rome for the Jubilee".
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