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Pope Leo XIV rejects claims that God justifies war in Palm Sunday Mass message

NPR 1 min read 20 hours ago

Pope Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
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