🚨🇺🇸Days after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested the war in Iran was protected by God, Pope Leo XIV issued a sharp rebuke and called for an immediate ceasefire Speaking from St. Peter’s Square during the Angelus, he urged leaders to cease fire so that avenues for dialogue may be reopened and condemned attacks on schools, hospitals, and homes after two weeks of fighting that reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians Later, preaching at a parish in Rome, Leo warned against invoking religion to justify war, saying: “someone presumes to involve the name of God in choices of death” and that “God cannot be enlisted by the darkness”