教皇利奥十四世敦促梅斯的宗教领袖们通过对话来促进和平。他以欧洲战后的和解为例，呼吁各方在面对战争、移民问题以及社会分化时也能采取类似的和解方式。
Pope Leo XIV urged faith leaders in Metz to build peace through dialogue. He invoked Europe's post-war reconciliation as a model for facing war, migration and polarisation.
在为期四天的法国访问结束时，教皇利奥十四世呼吁宗教领袖们传播和平与团结的信息。他强调，欧洲应当借鉴其历史上的和解传统，来应对当今面临的战争、移民和社会分化等挑战。在梅斯举行的一次跨宗教会议上，利奥对犹太教、伊斯兰教、新教及东正教的领袖们表示，所有信仰者都有责任跨越国界，为和平事业建立友谊。他提到了法国政治家罗伯特·舒曼的榜样，指出宗教对话必须摒弃暴力和压迫。
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged religious leaders to spread messages of peace and unity as he ended a four-day visit to France, using the example of Europe’s post-World War II reconciliation to underline his appeal for dialogue. He said Europe should draw on its tradition of engagement to face current challenges such as war, migration and polarisation. At an interreligious meeting in Metz, Leo told Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and Orthodox leaders that people of faith shared a responsibility to build friendships across borders in the cause of peace. Recalling the example of French statesman Robert Schuman, he said religious discourse must reject violence and oppression.
此次访问期间，利奥前往法国东部的梅斯市（该市毗邻卢森堡和德国边境），并在以舒曼命名的会议中心出席了相关活动。舒曼是欧洲一体化的奠基人物之一。利奥指出：“利用上帝的名义来为暴力和压迫辩护，实际上是对上帝名字的亵渎。”他多次呼吁欧洲铭记自身的基督教传统，并将其应用于当今的伦理与地缘政治挑战中。周日，在卢尔德的天主教圣地，他批评了法国最近通过的允许医疗辅助死亡的立法，称这种做法是“虚假的同情”。此次访问期间，大量民众参与了各项活动；仅在巴黎协和广场举行的弥撒就吸引了80万人参加，这一规模甚至让组织者感到意外。
Leo travelled to the eastern French city of Metz, near the borders with Luxembourg and Germany, for the meeting at a conference centre named after Schuman, one of the founding figures of European unity. Referring to Schuman’s efforts to promote dialogue even among rivals, Leo said, “Indeed, to invoke God’s name in order to justify violence or oppression is to profane that name. Religious discourse must constantly call for the disarmament of hearts and words.” His visit to officially secular but once strongly Catholic France has been marked by repeated calls for Europe to remember its Christian heritage and apply it to today’s ethical and geopolitical challenges. On Sunday, at the Catholic shrine in Lourdes, he criticised legislation recently approved in France allowing medically assisted dying, calling it “false compassion”. Large crowds turned out through the visit, including 800,000 people at Leo’s Mass at Paris’ Place de la Concorde, a turnout that surprised even organisers.
周一上午，利奥乘坐的法国航空包机在从卢尔德飞往梅斯的途中，由两架法国战斗机护航。当天晚些时候，在他法国之行的最后一场活动中，他将在梅斯的圣斯蒂芬大教堂主持弥撒，该教堂是法国哥特式建筑的杰出代表之一。教堂内的彩色玻璃窗包含了20世纪犹太艺术家马克·夏加尔的作品，这座建筑也被称为“上帝的灯笼”。
On Monday morning, Leo’s Air France charter was escorted by two French fighter jets on the flight from Lourdes to Metz. Later in the day, in his final event in France, he was due to celebrate Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Metz, one of the leading examples of French Gothic architecture. Its stained-glass windows include work by 20th century Jewish artist Marc Chagall, and the building is known as the “Lanterne du Bon Dieu”, or “The Good Lord’s Lantern”.
舒曼最广为人知的是1950年发表的《舒曼宣言》。该宣言在第二次世界大战结束后五年发布，提议建立一个欧洲煤钢共同体，将历史宿敌法国和德国的生产联系起来。这一构想基于这样一种信念：共同的经济利益将使两国之间再次爆发战争“不仅不可想象，而且在物质上也不可能”。该机构成为了后来促成欧盟成立的早期欧洲机构之一。舒曼曾是一名被纳粹监禁的抵抗战士，于2021年被宣布为“可敬者”，这是迈向封圣的一步。利奥在法国的最后一天将这段历史与他的信息结合在了一起，即对话、和平与团结对于应对欧洲当前的挑战仍然至关重要。（本文参考了印度报业托拉斯的报道）
Schuman is best known for the 1950 Schuman Declaration, issued five years after the end of World War II, which proposed a European Coal and Steel Community linking production between historic rivals France and Germany. The idea was based on the belief that shared economic interests would make another war between them “not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible”. The body became one of the early European institutions that later led to the European Union. Schuman, a resistance fighter who was imprisoned by the Nazis, was declared “venerable” in 2021, a step towards possible sainthood. Leo’s final day in France brought together that history and his message that dialogue, peace and unity remain essential in confronting Europe’s current challenges. With PTI Inputs