Pope ends Mass with a call for peace

Concluding a public Mass on Beirut’s waterfront, Pope Leo XIV made another call for peace.

“The Middle East needs new approaches in order to reject the mindset of revenge and violence, to overcome political, social and religious divisions, and to open new chapters in the name of reconciliation and peace,” he said. “The path of mutual hostility and destruction in the horror of war has been traveled too long with the deplorable results that are before everyone’s eyes.”