Since his election, Pope Leo XIV has continued his predecessors' practice of commenting briefly on world conflicts and disasters, urging prayers for their victims. These typically occur during regular Wednesday General Audiences and after Sunday Angelus / Regina Cæli reflections. He calls for similar prayers on other appropriate occasions as well. Since May 2025, Dialogika has maintained a running list of such remarks from Pope Leo, focusing on those involving Christian-Jewish relations or the Middle East. However, since the start of the joint United States and Israel war against Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, the pontiff's statements have become more frequent. They increasingly express his alarm about the glorification of war and claims of divine approbation of it coming from political and military leaders. Click on the link below for a running list of Pope Leo's statements from the most recent back to the early days of his pontificate.
