The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    So, blatant inaccuracies aside, that doesn’t change the fact that he quite literally did speak up about it, well before your toddler-esque “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

    The fact that he said something to begin with is already a step in the right direction. What you’re asking is unrealistic.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

      I never said this was a binary choice, or that he was against Palestinians, just that this it is cowardly to not mention the genocide where a historic amount of journalists are being killed.

      What you’re asking is unrealistic.

      Why precisely is it unrealistic?