Happy Birthday Pope Leo
Birthday greetings are arriving from all over the world for Leo XIV, who today, 14 September, turns 70. Offering them “on behalf of the Italian people, together with my sincere wishes for spiritual and personal well-being,” is President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
In his message, the Head of State highlights the Pope’s “urgent appeals for a ceasefire and the resumption of the path of dialogue, for the common good of peoples,” in a time when “fears have grown that the world is heading down a dangerous slope, driven by a widespread logic of domination and increasingly marked by lacerating conflicts.” “It is above all the many thousands of civilian victims who pay every day an intolerable price of blood and destruction,” Mattarella writes, adding that “in the face of such anxieties, men and women of goodwill feel the urgent need for peace and justice” and that “from every continent, people look with great hope” to the Pope’s words.
