Peace March Distorts Pius XII’s Legacy for Laudato Si’ Agenda
The Borgo Laudato Si’ at Castel Gandolfo hosted a peace march on February 10, 2026, commemorating the Allied bombing of February 10, 1944, which killed 500–700 civilians seeking refuge in papal residences. Father Manuel Dorantes, administrative director of the Laudato Si’ Higher Education Center, used the event to link Pope Pius XII’s wartime hospitality to Pope Leo XIV’s 2026 jubilee for St. Francis of Assisi and the “Laudato Si’ Village” project. The article, published by Vatican News, frames the tragedy as a call to reject war and address modern “indifference, injustice, and the exploitation of the earth and of people,” presenting this as a continuity of Catholic social concern.


