{"id":82213,"date":"2026-04-18T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82213"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:30:49","slug":"7-recent-popes-and-their-public-comments-on-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/7-recent-popes-and-their-public-comments-on-war-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Recent Popes And Their Public Comments On War And Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/lotsa-popes.jpeg?resize=620,350&amp;q=75\" width=\"418\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>It&#8217;s not new for popes to speak out against war, especially as it seems that somewhere in the world, there is always a conflict going on. It doesn&#8217;t matter who is waging war, all the recent popes have condemned violence and have done all they could to advocate for a peaceful resolution to the various conflicts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>Peace is always the end goal, directing leaders of counties to put aside their differences and work together to talk and overcome any barriers that may be blocking them from a permanent ceasefire and the establishment of conditions that allow human dignity to flourish.\u00a0 Below is a short collection of quotes from seven recent popes:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776504631\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"7 Recent Popes And Their Public Comments On War And Peace\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: It&#8217;s not new for popes to speak out against war, especially as it seems that somewhere in the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82215,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82213\/revisions\/82215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}