Overview

• During the Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV prayed in English for those affected by the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis.
• After an initial condolence telegram, he urged the world to “stop the pandemic of arms” and condemned the “logic of weapons.”
• He called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, pressing leaders to renounce violence and pursue negotiations with international backing.
• The pope invoked Isaiah’s call to beat “swords into plowshares,” casting his message as a moral summons to turn weapons toward peaceful ends.
• Authorities report the Aug. 27 attack killed two children and injured 18 others as 116 rifle rounds were fired through stained-glass windows during a school Mass before the gunman died by suicide.