On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born pontiff formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, condemned President Trump’s rhetoric as “truly unacceptable.”
The remarks came before the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire deal brokered by Pakistan.
Instead of calling out the Iranian regime for its decades of atrocities, executing women for not wearing the hijab, funding Hamas and Hezbollah butchers, and even using children as human shields at power plants as TGP has reported, the Pope chose to lecture the President of the United States.
“Today, as we all know, there has also been this threat against the entire people of Iran, and this is truly unacceptable. There are certainly issues of international law here, but even more so a moral issue for the good of the whole entire population.
And I would like to invite everyone to truly think in their hearts about the many innocent people, so many children, So many elderly, completely innocent, who would also become victims of this escalation of a war that began from the very first days, as we were saying, asking all people of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence, to reject war, especially a war which many people have said is an unjust war, which is continuing to escalate and which is not resolving anything.
In fact, we have a worldwide economic crisis, energy crisis, situation in the Middle East of great instability, which is only provoking more hatred throughout the world. So come back to the table. Let’s talk. Let’s look for solutions. In a peaceful way.
And let’s remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, the sick—so many people who have already become or will become victims of this continued warfare.
To remind all that attacks on civilian infrastructure is against international law, but that it is also a sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction the human being is capable of.
And we all want to work for peace. People want peace. I would invite the citizens of all the countries involved to contact the authorities, political leaders, congressmen, to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war always.”