Posted on 05/10/2022 6:21:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis’s secretary of state reaffirmed the pope’s offer to go to Moscow personally to try to convince President Vladimir Putin to stop his war on Ukraine but said the Kremlin had yet to respond.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, told reporters late May 4, “There has been an offer from the Holy Father to go to Moscow to meet personally with President Putin. We are waiting for them to tell us what they want, what they intend to do.”
“I think that at this point there are no other steps to take,” the cardinal said.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, published May 3, Pope Francis said he had had Parolin send his offer to Putin in mid-March in an attempt to convince the Russian president to stop the war or, at least, to respect humanitarian corridors to evacuate innocent civilians.
“We still have not had a response, and we are still being persistent, even though I am afraid Putin may not be able to and may not want to have this meeting right now,” the pope had said. “I am doing what I can. If Putin were to open the door. …”
Although the pope said he was willing to go to Moscow, he repeated his decision not to accept an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Kyiv “for now” because he did not think doing so would help stop the war.
Many people, especially Ukrainians, are disappointed that the pope will not go to Kyiv and has not condemned Putin or Russia by name.
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With a papal bull against America under his arm I’m sure.
Many people, especially Ukrainians, are disappointed that the pope will not go to Kyiv and has not condemned Putin or Russia by name.
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The little beggar Zelensky and Vlad are both evil, corrupted leaders. Enough blame to go around. Support neither Zelensky nor Putin nor war. Let the two little thieving , corrupted children work it out- themselves.
Will he wash putins feet?
Here's a summary of Bergoglio's address to the U.S. Congress in September 2015:
Will the Pope negotiate with the Orthodox Metropolitan?
On Thursday, Pope Francis spoke before a Joint Session of Congress, where he explicitly lectured Americans on illegal immigration, redistribution of income, the death penalty, and climate change, but made only veiled references to abortion and same-sex marriage. It is no wonder President Obama was so happy to see the Pope in Washington, D.C.
Garabandal prophecy seems relevant , although I’ve always had issues with that apparition.
The pope is a DOPE!
He should go to DC and ask them WTF they’ve done to Ukraine.
Yes, should be interesting to watch this one spin out.
Oh look at you! Changing your tune! Just a month ago from you it was nothing but Russia and China as "our last hope"!
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You Freeptard coward.
Just a month ago from you it was nothing but Russia and China as “our last hope”!
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Not changing anything, I still maintain Russia and China are our last hope in stopping the Globalists.The US was in on that list until the US fell with Trumps removal and the Senile Joe clan destroying America. That leaves two left to fight the Great Reset and globalization. The attacks by the west on the US may succeed, November elections MAY turn the tide, until then the US had lost its way- time will tell, and expect the attacks to ramp up on Russia and China.
Russia is a failed kleptocracy, it is not a Republic, it is not even so much as a mob democracy. Their embrace of satanic Marxism has stained Rus Mir beyond redemption. Anyone who worships at the altar of Putlim is a stain on this website and a stain on their own family.
China is much, much worse. China is a godless, roach-ridden cesspool of confucians currently sucking the last gasp of Zyklon-19 out of their own failed bioweapon -- because they are deeply committed to their own Marxist damnation, as the Lord Himself plainly warned against and yet they specifically rejected the Cornerstone.
The CCP positioned America as their permanent sworn enemy when Mao ejected Jakob Rosenfeld in '49. Despite being a Jew, Rosenfeld could not convince Mao that Christianity could not be overcome in the United States, and Mao contemplated killing him before deporting him.
Among Putlims, your illiteracy of history -- past and present -- is revolting. Russia and China are not post-Communist countries, they are ur-Communist enemies, committed to buying off what they could not acquire through Marxism for decades, blocked by American Constitutional Conservatism. Again, anyone who worships at the altar of Xi is a stain on this website and a stain on their own family.
Anyone who posts "I still maintain Russia and China are our last hope in stopping the Globalists." is a direct threat to the Mission Statement of Free Republic, and their IP should be block-banned to prevent any possibility of returning after the overdue zot.
You sit on that ejector seat and keep it warm and prepare to ride the lightning, Putlim.
Russia is a failed kleptocracy, it is not a Republic, it is not even so much as a mob democracy. ….
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To each his own. I lived in Moscow and trained Ivan’s, have you?
The people are much like our own, same desires.. I look around the US, boys in girls locker rooms. Men in woman’s bathrooms, Men in woman sports, Lgbxyz’s everywhere, Trans mentally ill in our government, gay marriage, ….none of that in Russia. I suggest you rethink your logic, we are much more fallen then they are.
That's your cover story for being a Putlim-puffing troll here? Your fear of trans? Jesus Christ get Langley on the phone! Ohh wait that's probably why they hired you -- it was front-and-center in your psychological makeup, along with your wig. Or your daydrinking malaise where you just make shit up.
Dude, I pity you. Truly. But yet ... * spit *
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