Vatican spokesman reflects on ‘our sin and the burden of a world that is in flames’
February 20, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, published an editorial, “Our sin and the burden of a world that is in flames,” in which he reflected on Pope Leo’s Ash Wednesday homily and applied it to international crises.
“As we receive ashes on our heads, we are called to an examination of conscience about our errors, but also about those that reverberate on a large scale,” Tornielli wrote in his editorial. Tornielli proposed an examination of conscience about “the tragic war in Ukraine,” “the total destruction of Gaza,” “countries where the free expression of popular protest is stifled in blood,” and “the perpetuation of the hecatomb that takes place in the Mediterranean Sea, with migrants drowning there.”
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