Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’ after Minnesota school shooting | Minneapolis school shooting
Pope Leo Xiv called on a weekly public and small weapon pandemi ”during a weekly public prayer with the crowds in St Peter Square on Sunday.
The first Pope in history was born in Chicago, speaking During a Catholic school mass in Minnesota, he saw that two children were killed for the victims of last week and that others were seriously injured.
“Our prayers for victims of tragic attraction during a school mass in the state of Minnesota,” he said. “In our prayers, we hold countless children where the world is killed and wounded every day every day.
Eight -year -old Fletcher Merkel and 10 -year -old Harper Moyski were killed in the Catholic School Church on Wednesday and 18 people were injured. The shooting fired 116 rifles from the church’s stained glass windows before he died with suicide.
There is shooting reigned After Jacob Frey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, discussions about the weapons in the United States called for solutions for weapons control rather than the expressions of “thoughts and prayers”. There is a USA experienced.
The Pope initially avoided political interpretation in response to shooting, stating that the telegraph was upset by the “terrible tragedy”.
“While turning the souls of the deceased into the love of the Almighty God, the sacred prayer for the wounded and the first intervening, the medical staff and clergymen. In this extremely difficult time, the sacred father sees the great twin Citiess community, the great twin region and the minihapkolu and the Bahp bishop of the Lord and the Lord. Word ” telegram stated.
He immediately began his objection by calling for a cease -fire in Ukraine and called on both sides to make a serious commitment to dialogue ”.
“It is time for those responsible to leave the logic of arms and to discuss the path of negotiation and peace with the support of the international community,” Leo said. “The sound of the weapons should be silenced, the sound of brotherhood and justice should rise.”
Leo’s predecessor Pope Francis has long removed the weapon industry, which called weapons manufacturers “death merchants ,, and in 2015, in his speech to the US Congress, he asked why the weapons were sold to kill completely.
“Unfortunately, as we all know, the answer is only for money: Blood, usually money soaked with innocent blood, Fran Francis said speech. “In the face of this embarrassing and guilty silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and stop the trade of weapons.”
