{"id":102,"date":"2025-07-07T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:03:10","slug":"pope-lee-on-the-call-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo on the call for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pope Leo XIV<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?ConsistentLifeNetwor\/a26e94f995\/3ff6215457\/9cf91bd6a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">June 22, 2025<\/a>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable chasm. There are no \u201cdistant\u201d conflicts when human dignity is at stake.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"439\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e8610156e0200d-450wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11046\" title=\"Pope Leo initial picture edit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e8610156e0200d-450wi.jpg 439w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e8610156e0200d-450wi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e8610156e0200d-450wi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIVJune 22, 2025&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11047,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/11047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}