Pope Leo XIV, in his "First Sunday Address To The Faithful," called for an "End To War." If you click on that link, restating the headline on a New York Times' article, you may face a paywall. My apologies, if that's what happens when you click. However, while the entire article is, of course, worthwhile reading, I am interested, mainly, in just one thing that the Pontiff said.
Pope Leo XIV is the first ever "American Pope," and according to the account in The Times, the following statement by the Pope led to a "roar from the tens of thousands who had gathered in St. Peter's Square at noon."
Never Again War
May I suggest that this statement by the Pope should be understood as more than mere empty words. What he said was the opposite of "Nihilism," featured in what I wrote yesterday. The opposite of "Nihilism" is "Faith," and "Faith Moves Mountains."
As I have said in a number of these daily blog postings, "anything is possible" in the human world that we create - and that we sustain, or supplant, by our thoughts and actions. As my father always told me, "if you don't have a dream, Gary, you can never have a dream come true." My father qualifies as one of my "Five Guys," and that statement is the reason why.
Americans have been "dreaming" about what the Pope said since at least 1950, which is when Ed McCurdy wrote a wonderful song, "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream."
"Dreaming." And then "Doing." That's how we create (and change) the world in which we live. That's how we will create the world we will leave to our children, and theirs!
So, we should sing along, first, and then change our lives to do what is, really, as simple as what the Pope said: "Never Again War."
Ed McCurdy
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
The room was filled with men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again
And when the papers were all signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands end bowed their heeds
And grateful prayers were prayed
And the people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round
Well swords and gun and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
The room was filled with men
And the paper they were signing said
They'd never fight again
And when the papers were all signed
And a million copies made
They all joined hands end bowed their heeds
And grateful prayers were prayed
And the people in the streets below
Were dancing round and round
Well swords and gun and uniforms
Were scattered on the ground
Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war
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