Rome —
Pope Leo XIV focused on retaining hope amid the violence of war, climate change and other suffering, in his first Easter homily since becoming the head of the Catholic Church last year.
Pope Leo, speaking during Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, said the message of Easter responds to “the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys.”
“Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty. But it is also true that in the midst of…