On a day when his solemn statement, that “God does not hear the prayers of those who wage offensive war,” came up at the Pentagon briefing, Pope Leo XIV held an audience in Rome with Illinois municipal leaders, primarily mayors from around the state.
Vatican News reported that he chose to quote the widely respected former mayor of Florence, Italy, Giorgio LaPira, to the effect that “Mayors are called to reduce and alleviate suffering and difficulties among their citizens in every way possible, ‘with all of the measures that love suggests and the law provides.’”
