Though just five words, many online saw it as a veiled warning. One person wrote, “This wasn’t a message — this was a warning disguised as a blessing.”
At his first press conference in Rome on May 12, Pope Leo urged more thoughtful communication:
“We must say ‘no’ to the war of words and images,” he said, calling for a rejection of “prejudice, resentment, fanaticism, and even hatred.”
