Pope Leo XIV has called for nuclear disarmament in the foreword to a new book collecting his addresses and reflections on peace. The book, Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift, was published first in Italian with the English translation forthcoming and includes a previously unpublished text by the Pope.
The Pope said that it is “not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament.”
“This truth, which seemed clear in past decades when we witnessed a nuclear de-escalation, has been obscured by a race to armament that today frightens and terrifies,” he said.
