{"id":36789,"date":"2025-01-05T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36789"},"modified":"2025-01-05T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:00:16","slug":"pope-says-bullying-at-school-prepares-students-for-war-not-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36789","title":{"rendered":"Pope says bullying at school prepares students for war, not peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">VATICAN CITY &#8212;&nbsp;VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-francis\">Pope Francis<\/a>&nbsp;warned that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-bullying-school-suicide-children-24f86ae6524129f3c0d38a340fea2474\">bullying in schools<\/a>&nbsp;prepares students for war rather than peace, in a speech to Catholic educators gathered at the Vatican on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to about 2,000 Italian teachers, educators and parents, Francis stressed his message against bullying, asking the audience to pledge to fight against it both at school and at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The pontiff praised educational efforts at schools to promote peace, noting that \u201cimagining peace\u201d lays the foundations for \u201ca more just and fraternal world\u201d through \u201cevery subject taught and through the creativity of children and young people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut if, at school, you wage war among yourselves or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/finland-school-shooting-helsinki-viertola-f368841fb3571aff05425ebdd078c555\">engage in bullying<\/a>, you are preparing for war, not for peace,\u201d he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The pope also called for more dialogue within families, emphasizing that \u201cit is dialogue that makes us grow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/pope-francis-bullying-school-prepares-students-war-peace-117332464\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212;&nbsp;VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014&nbsp;Pope Francis&nbsp;warned that&nbsp;bullying in schools&nbsp;prepares students for war rather than peace, in a speech to Catholic educators gathered at the Vatican on Saturday. Speaking to about 2,000 Italian teachers, educators and parents, Francis stressed his message against bullying, asking the audience to pledge to fight against it both at school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[8435,22017,31896],"class_list":["post-36789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-bullying","tag-pope","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36791,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions\/36791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}