Pope Francis' Message: Peace Is Never Made With Weapons, But With Outstretched Hands and Open Hearts

Pope's Message for World Peace: "Peace is never made with weapons, but with outstretched hands and open hearts".

Let us welcome and support the Pope's message for world peace by improving ourselves, praying with real love for humanity throughout the world!

Pope Francis
Pope Francis, SJ (Latin: Papa Franciscus, Italian: Papa Francesco; born December 17, 1936), whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church who was elected on the second day of the 2013 Papal Conclave on March 13, 2013. Previously since 1998, he was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was also appointed Cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Pope Francis is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and German.

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit priest and the first Latin American of Italian descent to be elected Pope. He was also the first non-European pope and the first from the Southern Hemisphere since the Syrian Pope Gregory III died in 741.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked as a barman and janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe case of pneumonia and cysts, he was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the superior of the Jesuit province in Argentina. He became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 unrest in Argentina. The governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him a political rival. Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose Francis as his papal name in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi. Throughout his public life, Pope Francis has been noted for his humility, his emphasis on God's mercy, his international visibility as pope, his concern for the poor, and his commitment to interreligious dialogue. He has been praised for having a less formal approach to the papacy than his predecessors, for example choosing to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse rather than the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace used by previous Popes.

Pope Francis maintains the Church's view on the ordination of women to the priesthood, but has initiated dialogue on the possibility of the diacosy and making women full members of dicasteries in the Roman Curia. He has argued that the Church should be more open and welcoming to members of the LGBT community, and has called for the decriminalisation of homosexuality worldwide.
-- Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church in the world, with the number of baptized people worldwide reaching 1.4 billion in 2023. As the oldest and largest international institution in the world to date, the Catholic Church has played an important role in the history and development of Western civilization. This church is actually a full communion consisting of 24 particular sui iuris churches, namely the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, and is composed of more than 5,200 dioceses or other types of ecclesiastical jurisdictions spread throughout the world as of 2023. The Pope, who is the Bishop of Rome, is the leader of the Catholic Church and the head of the Council of Bishops who holds the highest authority of the universal Church, which is currently held by Pope Francis. The jurisdiction of the Diocese of Rome, also called the Holy See, is the center of the Church's governmental authority. Meanwhile, an administrative body of the Holy See created by the Pope, called the Roman Curia, is headquartered in the Vatican, a theocratic city-state enclosed within the city of Rome, with the Pope as its head of state. The Catholic faithful themselves consist of non-ordained laypeople, as well as a hierarchy of clergy (clergy), namely bishops, priests, and deacons.

Love and faithfulness will meet, justice and peace will kiss.
Where there is truth there will be peace, and the result of truth is tranquility and tranquility forever.

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