The US-born pontiff has said “violence can never lead to justice” Pope Leo XIV has spoken against the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran by calling for an immediate ceasefire. Stability can never be achieved through violence, the pontiff, himself a US national, has warned. The Pope delivered his speech as part of a weekly Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican on Sunday, where he decried two weeks of “horrific violence” suffered by the people of the Middle East. “I renew my prayerful