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data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota<\/a><\/span> and called for an end to the &#8220;pandemic of arms, large and small.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-born pope spoke in English as he denounced the attack and the &#8220;logic of weapons&#8221; fueling wars around the world, during his Sunday noon blessing from his studio overlooking St. Peter&#8217;s Square in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American state of Minnesota,&#8221; Leo said. &#8220;We hold in our prayers the countless children killed and injured every day around the world. 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