Anonymous23 days ago
As the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran enters its second week with over 1,300 killed and global oil markets in turmoil, an Iranian ayatollah's extraordinary appeal to Pope Leo XIV has spotlighted decades of quiet Vatican-Shia diplomacy now thrust into the center of a crisis threatening to engulf the entire Middle East. The Pope has responded with escalating warnings about an "irreparable abyss," while his top diplomat has delivered the Vatican's sharpest critique of American foreign policy in decades, questioning the legality and morality of preventive war.