Overview
- Speaking Saturday at the Vatican, the pope invoked Mother Teresa and urged caring for the “smallest” as the path to peace.
- He said peace is impossible while the weak are excluded and society remains indifferent to the poor, refugees and the oppressed.
- He argued that politics cannot truly serve peoples if it excludes the unborn or neglects those in material and spiritual need.
- Austria’s Eva‑Maria Holzleitner responded on Bluesky that peace requires inviolable human and women’s rights, including self‑determination over one’s body.
- Coverage connected the remarks to healthcare rules, noting a Catholic owner barred medically indicated abortions at Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lippstadt after a 2025 merger, with exceptions only to protect the pregnant person’s life.