A panel of experts hosted by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life addressed Pope Leo’s calls for peace and reconciliation amid growing tension between the White House and the Vatican, NCR reports. CERL Advisory Council Member Mary Ellen O’Connell, speaking on the panel, stated that Pope Leo’s words affirmed international law and that “Pope Leo has an absolute duty to correct moral falsehoods when they are uttered, especially moral falsehoods of the level of invading a country without legal right to do so…”.

Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. Read her bio here. 

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