Trent Horn

That said, in his previous encyclicals like Laudato Si, sometimes I had difficulty making heads or tails of what were his actual concrete proposals for what we should do to help the poor, to protect the environment.

And similar things about dealing with geopolitical questions, national stability, trade, dealing with armed conflict and how to resolve it.

I think Pope Leo really understands that the papacy is going to be limited in many of these practical questions about how to answer these things.

But at the bare minimum, the Pope is able to offer just sound advice of saying, for example, no matter what you believe about the conflict, whether you believe who is just or who is unjust, we can all pray for a conflict to end as quickly as possible.

Now how to get it to end, that's gonna be a prudential judgment, different questions are offered.

And I think it's wise for the Pope to step back and not offer, here's my 16 point proposal to bring the conflict to an end.

Instead, he's encouraging the faithful to pray and to ask their leaders, and hopefully people on both sides of a conflict, ask their leaders,

to bring it to an end as soon as possible.

But you're right, Ben, that many of these comments that Pope Leo has made in regard to Iran and then the war, they're usually prompted by reporters that catch him as he's walking in and out of the Vatican.

And then I see them and then he comes and he addresses them.

And what I appreciate about Pope Leo, in contrast to his predecessor, is that he's much less likely to speak off the cuff, and he understands the importance in being exact in the words that he says on these important matters.