Sunday, November 5, 2017

Pope Francis prays 
for end to all wars

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By Reuters (The New Paper), 04 November 2017 at 06:00 am


The Pope rested a white rose on about a dozen graves at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.
PHOTO: The Pope rested a white rose on about a dozen graves at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. PHOTO: EPA
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The Pope visits US World War II cemetery, makes emotional address.

ROME: Pope Francis made one of his most emotional anti-war addresses on Thursday, saying during a visit to a US military cemetery that the world seemed to be headed into war perhaps bigger than any before.

He said this at a Mass for several thousand people at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in the town of Nettuno, south of the Italian capital, on the day Roman Catholics commemorate their dead.


Pope Francis walks past marble crosses at the American military cemetery in Nettuno, Italy, 02 November 2017.
PHOTO: Pope Francis walks past marble crosses at the American military cemetery in Nettuno, Italy, 02 November 2017.
"How often in history, when men think of making war, they are convinced of bringing a new world, they are convinced that they are making spring. It ends in winter; ugly, cruel, a reign of terror, of death,'" the pope said.
Pope Francis prayed for an end to all war during a mass at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, just south of the Italian capital, on Catholic All Souls' Day commemorating the dead.
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The burial ground is the final resting place for 7,860 American soldiers who died in the liberation of southern Italy and Rome in 1943 and 1944.

The Pope walked alone amid the rows of white headstones in the shape of crosses and Stars of David, resting a white rose on about a dozen and stopping to pray silently before the Mass.

"Please Lord, stop. No more wars. No more of these useless massacres," he said in hushed tones in an improvised homily.


Francis concluded by reminding that today is a day to pray for all the dead, but that we should pray especially for those young people killed in war and buried in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.
PHOTO: Francis concluded by reminding that today is a day to pray for all the dead, but that we should pray especially for those young people killed in war and buried in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.
"We also pray," he continued, “for the dead of today, the dead of war, even innocent children. This is the fruit of war: death.”
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Pope Francis said remembering the many young people who died in World War II was even more important "today that the world once more is at war and is preparing to go even more forcefully into war".

He did not elaborate but appeared to be referring to the possibility of nuclear war.

Later, he and Rome's Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni each read a prayer.

After walking past the tombs, the Pope wrote in the visitors' book: "This is the fruit of war: hate, death, vendetta. Forgive us Lord".

As tensions between the US and North Korea have increased in recent months, Pope Francis has warned that a nuclear conflict would destroy a good part of humanity.


At American WWII cemetery, Pope begs: ‘Please, Lord, no more war!’
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Pope Francis stands next to marble crosses at the American military cemetery in Nettuno, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. Pope Francis is underlining the price of war, visiting an American military cemetery and the site of a Nazi massacre in Rome. The pope will first say Mass in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, where 7,680 American war dead who helped liberate southern and central Italy during World War II are buried and 3,095 missing are commemorated. From there, the pope travels to the Ardeatine Caves, the site of one of the worst massacres of Nazi-occupied Rome.
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US President Donald Trump will visit South Korea this month.

While he is in Asia, the Pope will be hosting an international seminar at the Vatican that will urge the banning of nuclear weapons.

The cemetery Mass was attended by US Ambassador to Italy Lewis Eisenberg and the acting US Ambassador to the Vatican Louis Bono.

"If today is a day of hope, it is also a day of tears.
 

Tear down all walls to spread peace: Pope
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Pope Francis, visiting one of Catholicism's most famous sanctuaries, has prayed for an end to wars he said were lacerating the world and urged the faithful to 'tear down all walls' to spread justice and peace.
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"Humanity has not learned the lesson and seems that it does not want to learn it," the Pope said, asking for prayers for the victims of today's conflicts.

On his way back to the Vatican, Pope Francis stopped to pray at the Ardeatine Caves, where in March 1944 occupying Nazis killed 335 Italian men and boys as a reprisal for the killing of 33 German policemen by partisans. Seventy-five of the victims were Jews.


Pope Benedict XVI circles the altar with incense during Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Saturday.
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By Reuters (The New Paper), 04 November 2017 at 06:00 am



Reference
[1] Reuters, Pope Francis prays 
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