Address to Donors of Vatican Nativity Scenes (excerpt: Australian mass shooting on Dec 14, 2025)

[From the Vatican website; computer translation]

Dear brothers and sisters, the Nativity scene and the tree are signs of faith and hope; as we contemplate them in our homes, parishes and squares, let us ask the Lord to renew in us the gift of peace and fraternity. Let us pray for those who suffer because of war and violence; in particular, today I would like to entrust to the Lord the victims of the terrorist massacre carried out yesterday in Sydney against the Jewish community. Enough of these forms of anti-Semitic violence! We must eliminate hatred from our hearts.