Posted on 04/07/2022 6:18:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME – Pope Francis said that international organizations, such as the United Nations, have proven to be useless in stopping violence and atrocities in the war in Ukraine.
Speaking on Wednesday about the massacres in the recently freed city of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, the pope denounced the “increasingly horrendous cruelties [that] are also committed against civilians and defenseless children. They are victims whose innocent blood cries out to the heavens and implores: Put an end to this war, silence the weapons, stop sowing death.”
Speaking about his trip to Malta last weekend, he said the Mediterranean nation was a country that represents the “rights and power” of the nations that, though being small, are rich in history and civilizations.
He proposed Malta as an example that should lead the international community towards a logic that is not dominated by the most powerful countries.
“Today we often hear about ‘geopolitics’,” Francis said. “But unfortunately, the dominant logic is the strategies of the most powerful countries to affirm their own interests, extending their area of economic, ideological and military influence. We are seeing this in the war.”
He said that following World War II, an attempt was made to lay the foundations of a new “era of peace, but unfortunately, we do not learn.”
“Unfortunately, the old story of competition between the greater powers went on,” the pope said. “And, in the current war in Ukraine, we are witnessing the impotence of organizations of the United Nations.”
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A stopped clock is right twice a day...
I realized the U.N.’s irrelevancy when it was taking bribe money from Sadam Hussein to ignore his mass murders after gulf war I. I don’t know what the Pope was doing then.
Well golly-gee-whillickers your eminence... You DO represent all the Catholics in the Ukraine AND Russia and I don’t see you taking the lead in doing anything about it - aside from continuing to blaspheme and support China, I mean...
There really is not much that can be done here without the threat of thermonuclear war.
Where was all the hand-wringing when 2 million Congolese died in the worst conflict since WWII?
We had Pax Americana for 50 years after WW II. The leftists set out on their mission to destroy America right after WW II ended and it took them 50 years to make a lot of progress. But the memory of WW II faded away as people died and the leftist project destroyed Pax Americana. That’s where we are today.
Traditional Catholics say Bergoglio and his hand-picked cardinals are impotent in passing on the Catholic faith.
For once I agree with the pope. The UN, NATO..completely useless. But especially NATO whose whole raison d’etre is to protect free Europe from the Russians. They got off from having to do anything because of a minor technicality that Ukraine wasn’t a “member”. I will bet they would have the same even if a member nation were attacked. Oh no no no .. we can’t do any more otherwise it will escalate and lead to nuclear war !!
Well duh.
Yo Popey! The Turd Worlders at the UN have ALWAYS BEEN USELESS. It should have been shut down decades ago. Affirmative Action puppets for the wealthy American politicians.
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He said that following World War II, an attempt was made to lay the foundations of a new “era of peace, but unfortunately, we do not learn.”
Somebody ought to remind the Antichrist that Trump’s 4 years was an era of peace.
And the Antichrist seems to prefer the sniffing and groping Biden, maybe because He’s a Roman Catholic.
And Biden is all about endless wars and proxy wars.
The Antichrist chose wrong but I doubt the Antichrist thinks he needs to learn
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