Pompeii, the Pope Against War: "Let Us Not Surrender to Death"

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The visit on the first anniversary of the election: Bartolo Longo conceived this shrine as a monument of peace.

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The wars that are still being fought in so many regions of the world call for a renewed commitment not only economic and political, but also spiritual and religious, "we cannot resign ourselves to the images of death that every day the chronicles propose us." It is the new appeal against the "wars" launched by Pope Leo from the sanctuary of Pompeii, where he visited before making a stop in Naples. Pope Prevost recalled that "when St. John Paul I…