Hello friends,

Pope Leo XIV’s January 1st World Day of Peace message:

Pope Leo XIV says “peacemakers continue to resist the spread of darkness, standing as sentinels in the night” and centers “unarmed and disarming peace” on the nonviolence of Jesus: “The way of Jesus continues to cause unease and fear. He firmly repeats to those who would defend him by force: “Put your sword back into its sheath” (Jn 18:11; cf. Mt 26:52). The peace of the risen Jesus is unarmed, because his was an unarmed struggle in the midst of concrete historical, political and social circumstances.“

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/peace/documents/20251208-messaggio-pace.html