On the holiest night of the Catholic liturgical calendar, Pope Leo XIV used his address during the Easter Vigil at Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica to deliver a urgent plea to global Catholic communities, urging people not to grow numb to the human suffering caused by active conflicts across the world — most notably the escalating war roiling the Middle East. In his remarks delivered Saturday evening, the pontiff called for intentional, active pursuit of peace, warning against the paralysis that fear and mutual distrust can sow in global relations.