{"id":87775,"date":"2026-03-13T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=87775"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:22:04","slug":"pope-leos-leading-question-should-christians-who-start-wars-go-to-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/03\/13\/pope-leos-leading-question-should-christians-who-start-wars-go-to-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo's leading question: Should Christians who start wars go to confession?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Sacrament of Reconciliation<\/strong>, commonly referred to as confession, is one of the most difficult sacraments to experience: not just because it is complicated in itself, but because it touches deeply the vunerable human heart and conscience.<br>Pope <strong>Leo XIV<\/strong> has raised a question about the need for Christians to put the sacrament into practice, especially in the midst of the escalation of an armed conflict.<br><br><strong>POPE LEO XIV<br><\/strong><em>One might ask: do those Christians who bear serious responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility and courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the question the pontiff posed to himself and to the 400 participants of the <strong>Internal Forum Course<\/strong> of the Apostolic Penitentiary, whom he received in the <strong>Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recalled that every Christian is required to go to confession at least once a year. In the midst of the rising escalation in the Middle East, the pontiff encourages Christians to become aware of their behavior, especially during this time of <strong>Lent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacrament of Reconciliation, commonly referred to as confession, is one of the most difficult sacraments to experience: not just because it is complicated in itself, but because it touches deeply the vunerable human heart and conscience.Pope Leo XIV has raised a question about the need for Christians to put the sacrament into practice, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":87771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j_DegJ8hG4M","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bconfessionepapaleoneeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bconfessionepapaleoneint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87778,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87775\/revisions\/87778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}