Equatorial Guinea Africa Pope

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war.  In a wide-ranging news conference Thursday on his way home from his trip to Africa, he also condemned capital punishment. Leo also asserted that countries have the right to control their borders but mustn’t treat migrants worse than “animals,” and lamented that the church’s morality teaching had been reduced to sex.  Leo was leaving after an 11-day, four-nation voyage that took him from Algeria in the north of Africa to Angola in the south and Cameroon in-between. It was a newsy papal trip because of the extraordinary back and forth with U.S. President Donald Trump over the Iran war.