Pope Leo Calls Out a Warlord

Pope Leo XIV addresses the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Jubilee of the Poor

When Attila the Hun marched his bristling barbarian horde up to the gates of Rome in 452, unsatiated with the conquest of the Italian countryside left devastated and desperate in their wake, he was met by a man. This man knelt between the Hun and the Eternal City and, according to a blend of history and legend, said these words: Then, Attila’s disbelieving eyes beheld two resplendent…

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