The Pope’s Way of the Cross: “Those who start a war will answer to God”

Vatican City (Vatican), 3 April (LaPresse) – “Every authority will have to answer to God for the way in which it exercises the power entrusted to it: the power to judge, but also the power to start a war or to end it, the power to educate for violence or for peace, the power to fuel the desire for revenge or for reconciliation, the power to use the economy to oppress peoples or to free them from misery, the power to trample on human dignity or to protect it, the power to promote and defend life or to reject and stifle it”. This is taken from the meditation for the first station of the Way of the Cross to be held this evening at the Colosseum in Rome, in the presence of Pope Leo XIV. “Each of us is also called to account for the power we exercise in our daily lives,” continues the text prepared by the former Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton. At the stations, the texts of St Francis of Assisi are meditated upon on the eighth centenary of his death.