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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on December 25, 2025. / Daniel Ibañez/ EWTN News

At Christmas Day Mass, Pope Leo XIV Says Wars Fed by Falsehoods Send Young People to Their Deaths

Dec 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” and “sent to their deaths,” while also drawing attention to the humanitarian suffering of displaced people — including families living in tents in Gaza — in a homily centered on the vulnerability of the Word made flesh.

Pope Francis waves during his Angelus address at the Vatican, Aug. 8, 2021. Vatican Media.

Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse Renews “our amazement for gift of Eucharist”: Pope Francis

Aug 8, 2021

‘God became man for me, for you, for all of us, to enter into our lives,’ the pope said.

Pope Francis in the Pope Paul VI Hall, Dec. 13, 2017. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Pope Francis: The Gospel is a Call to Holiness in Concrete Actions

Jan 5, 2020

The Gospel is more than a nice story – it is the concrete revelation of God’s plan for the world and calls people to holiness, Pope Francis said Sunday.