Don’t Blame a Pope for Praying for Peace
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By the end of October 1914, things weren’t looking all that promising. “I’ll be home for Christmas,” soldiers promised their wives, and yet Russia had just declared war on the Ottoman Empire in the latest of the rapid-fire declarations of war. Things were spiraling faster than anyone could have predicted, and it looked like the whole world was about to engage in the bloodshed. And so the pope, from his prison in the Vatican, begged for peace.
“We implore those in whose hands are placed the fortu
“We implore those in whose hands are placed the fortu
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