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