{"id":89607,"date":"2026-04-27T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=89607"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:13:38","slug":"pope-leo-and-chernobyl-may-the-use-of-atomic-energy-be-at-the-service-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/pope-leo-and-chernobyl-may-the-use-of-atomic-energy-be-at-the-service-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo and Chernobyl: \u201cMay the use of atomic energy be at the service of peace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James O'Reilly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 26, the weekly praying of the Regina Caeli at St. Peter's coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Recalling the event, Pope Leo issued an appeal about the proper use of nuclear technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I hope that, at all levels of decision-making, discernment and responsibility may always prevail, so that every use of atomic energy may be at the service of life and peace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moments earlier, the Pope had shared a reflection on the Gospel of the day, lamenting that there are people who plunder, even today, natural resources at the cost human life and dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>And let us not forget also those 'thieves' who, by plundering the resources of the earth, waging bloody wars, or fostering evil in any form, do nothing but steal from all of us the possibility of a future of peace and serenity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo closed the time of pray by greeting the families and friends of the priests he had ordained in Rome earlier that same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James O'Reilly On April 26, the weekly praying of the Regina Caeli at St. Peter's coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Recalling the event, Pope Leo issued an appeal about the proper use of nuclear technology. POPE LEO XIV I hope that, at all levels of decision-making, discernment and responsibility may always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":89597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZnU6nfUbJdM","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/breginacaeli2604eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/breginacaeli2604int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607"}],"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=89607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89610,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions\/89610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}