You're invited to our weekly parish forum on Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Elizabethan Room. We will discuss the first year of Pope Leo XIV's papacy. His personality and his statements have gained widespread attention, but we will go beyond the sound bites and give close and careful attention to his words. Our conversation begins with his Palm Sunday homily, in which he stated that Jesus “rejects war,” cannot be used “to justify war,” and “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” These phrases were widely quoted in the media; we will look at them within the context of the homily, to see more fully what he was saying. We will also read and discuss passages from his homilies on the child Christ as the Prince of Peace and on the Eucharist, portions of his apostolic exhortation on love for the poor, and excerpts from his apostolic letter on Christian education.