PAPA LEO XIV Denunciation

Papa Leo XVI He publicly prayed Sunday for the victims of the shooting in a Catholic school in Minnesota And he asked for an end of the “large and small arms pandemic.”

The Pope, born in the United States, spoke in English as he denounced the attack and the “logic of weapons” that fed wars around the world, during his blessing from Sunday at noon of his study overlooking the Plaza de San Pedro in Rome.

“Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school mass in the American state of Minnesota,” Leo said. “We hold in our prayers the innumerable children killed and wounded every day throughout the world. Let’s tell God to stop the pandemic of weapons, large and small, that our world infects.”

Two children -Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moysk, 10, were killed on Wednesday, and 20 people were injured during a shooting attack in the Church of Annunciation in Minneapolis, since hundreds of students of the Catholic School Catholic Annunciation nearby and others met for a massive frame at the beginning of the school year.

The shooter, who later died from suicide, shot 116 rifle rounds through the church’s stained glass window.

Immediately after the shooting, Leo had refrained from any political comment on weapons in the United States, Send a condolence telegram That focused exclusively on the spiritual. He expressed sadness for the “terrible tragedy” and extended his “more sincere condolences and the security of spiritual closeness to all those affected.”

Leo had opened his appeal on Sunday demanding a Fire in Ukraine and a “serious commitment to the dialogue” of the sides at war.

“It is time for those responsible to renounce the logic of weapons and take the path of negotiations and peace, with the support of the international community,” he said. “The voice of weapons must be silenced, while the voice of fraternity and justice must increase.”

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