POPE LEO LEADS HOLY MASS – Says faith in the one God, Lord of heaven and earth, unites people according to perfect justice
Pope Leo on Tuesday led a holy mass in Algeria’s Basilica of Saint Augustine and delivered a homily where he urged people to treat others as they would themselves.
The first American pope has drawn the ire of the U.S. President Donald Trump after sharply criticising the Iran war. He told congregants that the guiding principle in the face of poverty and oppression is charity. “Let us do to those around us, as we would have them do to us,” he said.
The pope, writing to participants of a Vatican meeting about the use of power in democratic societies, said democracies remained healthy only when they were rooted in moral values.
Trump sharply criticised Leo as “terrible” on Sunday night, after the pope had emerged in recent weeks as a growing critic of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Pope Leo told reporters on Monday that he planned to keep criticising the war, despite Trump’s comments.
