>>3183868This is what they're referring to as the "Nuclear option" in the article. The catholic church is only relevant when it helps democrats make a republican look weak, geg.
""I would like to invite everyone to think in their hearts of so many innocent children, so many totally innocent elderly people who would also be victims of this escalation," the pope said. "I would like to invite everyone to pray, but also to seek ways to communicate - perhaps with congressmen, with authorities, saying that we don't want war; we want peace."
The remarks surprised Vatican observers, and marked a defining moment of Leo's tenure, as his papacy nears the one-year mark.
Leo, who is widely viewed as more reserved and measured than his predecessor, has long spoken about migrants, poverty and war in moral terms. What's different is his direct appeal to citizens to engage with their political representatives, a step that Vatican historians say is extraordinarily unusual for a sitting pontiff."