Posted on 05/07/2022 8:27:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ROME—Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis has floated the idea that he wants to take a trip to Kyiv to try to broker a ceasefire. But now he says he would prefer to go to Moscow to try to talk some sense into Vladimir Putin, who he has not outwardly condemned in the now nearly three-month-old war and only did so lightly in a lengthy interview with an Italian newspaper.
“I feel that before going to Kyiv, I must go to Moscow,” he told Corriere Della Sera in an interview that ran Tuesday. But the meeting would not exactly be to condemn Putin, based on what he told the paper. He said that the real “scandal” of Putin’s war is “NATO barking at Russia’s door,” which he said caused the Kremlin to “react badly and unleash the conflict.”
Never mind that the 85-year-old pontiff is unable to walk after tearing a ligament in his knee (for which he says he will soon have surgery), or that Putin won’t even answer his calls.
Francis repeated comments he has made in general audiences and in other interviews that the war is nothing more than a giant opportunity for a “trade in arms” and that it is still ongoing because of the constant shuttling of weapons to Ukraine. He has spoken twice by phone to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but mostly to urge him not to fight back. He also went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See days after the invasion began to “register his concerns” about what was happening.
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I agree.
Pope Francis told the paper:
“The clear thing is that weapons are being tested there. The Russians now know that tanks are of little use and are thinking of other things. This is why wars are waged: to test the weapons we have produced. Few people are fighting this trade, but more should be done.”
The homo Zelenskyy dancers already beat us to it.
Trump is guilty of starting a riot-it’s how it works.
Yeah, and the US forced Japan to attack with its nasty embargoes before 1941. All Japan ever wanted was to kill Nazis in China!
Do I need the sarcasm tag?
Did he slip on something in the hall and hit his head? This isn’t the line he’s supposed to tow.
Has Biden made a recent trip to the Vatican that we didn’t know about?
Commie Pope.
https://rairfoundation.com/globalists-enraged-putin-disrupts-their-plans-for-a-new-world-order-vide
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4061161/posts/
Soros stooge.
Much can be said about today’s Pope. At least he has some common sense. Outside of the western media’s constant war, war, cheerleading ,the other half ( and more) of the world, agrees with his assessment.
For the Ukie war cheerleaders, anything Senile Joe supports is corrupted, dirty, and destroys America, one piece at a time. By design? Or ignorance? Run from anything the corrupted, senile evil old man supports.
The Pope is barking mad.
So a Catholic Pope will try to go to a Orthodox nation to broker a cease fire?
Talk about looking for attention! The year 1054 comes to mind.
He’s right.
lol..nice try cultist.
Go ahead, defend the Commie Pope, who hates capitalism and Trump. ""A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian," the pontiff said on Feb. 18 aboard the papal plane."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/war-words-trump-pope-francis-evolved/story?id=47582353
Pope Francis issues blistering rebuke of capitalism — and says the coronavirus pandemic proves 'not everything can be resolved by market freedom'
https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-francis-criticizes-capitalism-coronavirus-free-markets-equality-2020-10
Pope Francis Calls Out Trump, Accuses Him of “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/pope-francis-trump
I guess the Pope is now part of Putin’s troll farm.
This man is not a pope. He is a politician and head of state. He worked with obammy for the cuba deal and the iran deal. I suspect he worked with the Italian democrat party to get rid of Matteo Salvini.
The book “The political pope” tells a lot more.
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