Vatican Intensifies Criticism of the u.s. and Fears that the Conflict Will Be Presented as Religious War

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The Vatican, with the first American Pope at the helm, is stepping up its calls for peace in a position that is increasingly facing the White House, a clash that has never been explicit and that Leon XIV has been trying to avoid since his election 10 months ago. But it is also that in this crisis the Holy See sees more and more clearly a nuance that is not in the foreground, but that arouses great concern: the risk of wanting to pose itself as a…