Leo XIV, Quoting Mother Teresa: “The Greatest Destroyer Of Peace Is Abortion.”

Illustration: RORATE CÆLI

Text is taken from, and can be read in full at, RORATE CAELI, HERE.

[T]here will be no Peace without ending the War that humanity wages against itself when it discards the weak, excludes the Poor, and remains indifferent to refugees and 

the oppressed. 

Only those who care for the smallest can do truly great things. 

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Saint of the Poor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said in this regard that “the greatest destroyer 

of Peace is Abortion” (cf. Address at the National Prayer Breakfast, 3 February 1994).

Her voice remains prophetic: No policy can truly serve the people if it excludes from life those who are about to be born, 

if it does not help those in material and spiritual need.

Pope Leo XIV.

To participants in the Meeting “Political Innovation Hackathon: One Humanity, One Planet”.

31 January 2026.