Every day we are confronted with apocalyptic images of war and violence flaring up in so many places around the world. It is a world war being fought in fragments in different places, to quote Pope Francis. Powerlessness, fear, but also anger arise in so many of us at all the suffering that these conflicts entail.
The constant emergence of new hotspots of war causes the existing ones to be almost forgotten, so that the suffering of millions of people escapes our attention. Almost every Sunday, during his Angelus prayer, we hear Pope Leo mention a new conflict for which he begs for peace like a voice crying in the wilderness and renounces all forms of armed violence. But the bombs continue to fall, the drones continue to sow destruction, and instead of the dialogue proposed by the Pope, we hear only the word 'retribution'.
