ROME — Pope Francis said he was “heartbroken” in the shooting at a school in Texas on Tuesday and called for an end to the “indiscriminate arms trade”.
“My heart was broken by the elementary school massacre in Texas,” the Pope said after his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. “I pray for missing children, the elderly and their families.”
“It’s time to say ‘enough’ to the indiscriminate arms trade,” he continued. “Let’s all work to ensure that tragedies like this don’t happen again.”
The Pope also sent a telegram reassuring the victims’ families of their prayers and “spiritual closeness.”
According to a telegram written by the Vatican Foreign Minister at the behest of the Pope, Francis “was deeply upset when he learned of the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde”.
His Holiness, assuring the victims of this attack of his spiritual closeness, entrusted, together with the whole community, the souls of children and teachers who died in the loving mercy of the Almighty God, and wished for the divine gift of healing and consolation. to the wounded and the victims, ”he said.
“With firm faith in the Resurrected Christ that all evil can be overcome with good, he prays that those who are tempted to choose the path of brotherly unity and love instead”, concludes with the promise of his apostolic blessing.
Source: Breitbart
