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March 3, 2026, Adrian, Michigan – On behalf of Adrian Dominican Sisters and Associates, the General Council issued a statement, joining Pope Leo XIV in his “heartfelt appeal” to all responsible parties, including President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress, to halt the spiral of violence in the Middle East.
 
As a congregation of Dominican Sisters who seek truth, make peace, and reverence life, we are deeply troubled to see our nation resort to the horrific violence of war to solve disputes – and without authorization by the U.S. Congress as our Constitution requires. We are facing what Pope Leo rightly called “the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions.”
 
After his Angelus prayer on March 1, 2026, Pope Leo said, “Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue.”
 
We join his “heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm.”
 
As American citizens, we call on President Trump and our nation’s leaders in Congress to bring a halt to our calamitous bombing and re-initiate diplomacy. We mourn the loss of an estimated 500 Iranian children, women and men, the unknown number of other deaths in the widening gyre of war in 13 other Middle East countries, and the six members of the U.S. military who were killed in the first three days of war. We pray for their grieving families and for the safety of all in harm’s way.
 
We join Pope Leo in praying: “May diplomacy regain its proper role and may the well-being of peoples who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice be upheld.”