Leo XIV's Assisi message calls peace humanity's "guiding star," omitting Christ

In recorded remarks to the interreligious gathering at Assisi marking 40 years since the first World Day of Prayer for Peace, Pope Leo XIV called peace the "guiding star" for all peoples and said "there is no such thing as a holy war." According to LifeSite's reading, he did not mention Jesus Christ, the Trinity or Mary, and stressed dialogue over evangelisation. The message places a shared ideal of peace above exclusive claims about Christ, a pattern Scripture treats with caution, since Acts 4:12 declares salvation in no other name and 1 Thessalonians 5:3 warns of "peace and safety" proclaimed before sudden destruction.