Pope Francis spoke on the plane to Kraków about how Fr. Hamel was one of many Christians to be killed in this “piecemeal world war.” Immediately advised by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica and the Holy Father’s de facto spokesman, that that could be interpreted as if Islam was waging war on Christianity, the Holy Father circled back to the journalists to take another crack at it, insisting that wars are never caused by religion.