Uganda, April 24 -- There is a question that refuses to go away: why would the most powerful political power in the world attack a man with no armies, no grand investments, no weapons?

The answer is disarmingly simple. Because he spoke. When Pope Leo XIV called for an end to war, he did not deploy strategy or ideology. 

He named a truth: too many are dying - too many children, too many innocents. He insisted that another path is possible, that someone must rise and say so. In doing this, he touched a nerve that power often seeks to silence - the Gospel. The Gospel has always been unsettling. It disrupts comfortable arrangements. It places at the centre, those whom power prefers to push to the margins: the poor, the migrants, the ch...