Pope: ‘Those who tire of dialogue tire of hoping for peace’

Rome, 13 December (LaPresse) – ‘Those who tire of dialogue tire of hoping for peace.’ So said Pope Leo XIV as he received participants in the Jubilee of Italian Diplomacy in audience. ‘In this regard, ladies and gentlemen, I recall with you the heartfelt appeal that St. Paul VI addressed to the United Nations Assembly exactly sixty years ago,’ he explained. ‘What unites men,’ my venerable predecessor noted, “is a pact sealed ‘with an oath that must change the future history of the world: no more war, no more war! Peace, peace must guide the destiny of peoples and of all humanity!’. Yes, peace is the duty that unites humanity in a common search for justice. Peace is the intention that, from Christmas night, accompanies the whole life of Christ, until his Easter of death and resurrection. Peace is the definitive and eternal good that we hope for everyone,‘ continued the Pope, expressing his hope that ’in order to preserve and promote true peace, you may be men and women of dialogue, wise in reading the signs of the times according to that code of Christian humanism that is the foundation of Italian and European culture.”