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(128,722 posts) Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:55 PM Aug 31

Pope Leo calls for end to 'pandemic of arms' after Minneapolis school shooting

Source: CNN

Pope Leo XIV has pleaded for an end to the “pandemic of arms” as he made his first public comments on gun control while offering prayers for the victims of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic school in Minneapolis.

The first American pope made his remarks following the August 27 shooting which killed two children and injured 18 others as students and staff gathered for a school Mass.

“Let us plead [to] God to stop the pandemic of arms large and small which infects our world,” the Chicago-born pontiff told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square following the weekly Sunday Angelus prayer.

Leo, speaking in his native English, said he was offering “prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American state of Minnesota” and the “countless children” who are killed and injured every day.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pope-leo-calls-end-pandemic-134501657.html

I hear fundamentalist's heads exploding

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Pope Leo calls for end to 'pandemic of arms' after Minneapolis school shooting (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 31 OP

Well, Your Holiness, it's something. calimary Aug 31 #1

I second your excellent idea, Calimary! HeartsCanHope Aug 31 #4

Trump going to fire him on Monday? Bengus81 Aug 31 #2

Investigators at the ready.. Deuxcents Aug 31 #3

He lied on his Mortgage applications so probably maxsolomon Sep 2 #6

Well with so many guns you can expect such things, or if you are a child, a child, in Gaza. twodogsbarking Sep 1 #5

calimary

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1. Well, Your Holiness, it's something.

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Sun Aug 31, 2025, 06:02 PM

Aug 31

WAAAAAY not enough, though.

I wish I could take all the guns and throw them into wet concrete. When it hardens, I’d have the whole works shipped out to where the Marianas Trench is, and dump it into the ocean.

Nice dream, anyway.