War

A U.S. bishop is calling for peace and humanitarian aid to Lebanon, where the U.S.-Israel war on Iran has spread with devastating consequences.

An interview with conflict resolution scholar Laurie Nathan of the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Speaking to journalists at Castel Gandolfo April 7, and without naming Trump, Pope Leo called the president’s threat “truly unacceptable.”

The U.S. bishops’ president said that President Donald Trump threatening Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” without a deal was morally unjustifiable.

President Donald Trump gave a prime time address to the nation justifying the ongoing Iran war, a day after Pope Leo XIV called for him to seek an off-ramp.

Pope Leo answered questions in Italian, English and Spanish as he was leaving Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town 13 miles southeast of Rome, after his customary Tuesday day off. 

The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued an Easter message calling the Iran war an “expanding wreckage” and its timing a “deep darkness.”

At his first Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV declared that Jesus, the King of Peace, embraces all suffering in human history and cries out from the cross against war.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily given March 29, 2026, in St. Peter’s Square on Jesus Christ as the King of Peace.

Russia fired almost 400 long-range drones on the war-torn country overnight, and six people were killed and 46 injured, according to AP.