Pope Leo XIV said the war in Iran does not qualify as a "just war" according to Catholic teaching, while answering questions by journalists aboard the papal plane for his six-day visit to Spain.
Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists aboard the papal flight from Rome to Madrid on June.
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