Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, released the following open letter today that she sent to His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV.
Holy Father,
I am writing to you at this grave hour of mankind, since you may be the only person left who could hopefully avoid a descent into what you yourself called an “irreparable abyss,” an escalation of the unprovoked war against Iran into potentially a global nuclear war, which would end all life on earth.
In the recent period, the world has entered a radically worse phase, where international law has been declared nonexistent; the so-called “rules-based order” declared as always having been a charade; and the principle of “might makes right” is being elevated to be the privilege of the powerful. As a result, billions of people are already suffering the dramatic worsening of their living conditions, countless people are already paying with their lives. But still worse, if the present course of events is not changed, the ultimate sin may be committed: the annihilation of the human species for the sake of satanic delusions.
Millions of ordinary people are asking in total despair, what can be done to change the course of history, when many governments, especially in the West, are obviously incapable of fulfilling their obligation to avoid damage to the people they are responsible for. Where are the institutions that can bring the remedy at this late hour?
Something that could be a positive, maybe even the decisive step to arouse the consciousness of the world, would be – in the spirit of the Council of Florence and the unity of the church brought about by Nicholas of Cusa, bringing the delegations of the Orthodox Church to the Councils of Florence and Ferrara – that you, your Holiness, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, as well as Patriarch Bartholomäus I of Constantinople, would take the courageous step and call together for all religious leaders of the world as well as all people of good faith, believers and non-believers alike, to step forward in defense of peace.
On October 25th last year, in your Angelus sermon, you evoked the great philosopher and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and his notion of the Coincidentia Oppositorum, as the necessary method of thinking to bind things together in the world today. It was the same method of thinking
