(ANSA) – VALLETTA, 02 APR – “Yes, it’s on the table”: this is how Pope Francis replied to journalists on the flight to Malta who asked him if he considered the invitation to go to Kiev.
The war in Ukraine was also evoked in Francis’ first speech in Valletta. We need “a human measure in the face of the infantile and destructive aggression that threatens us, in the face of the risk of an extended cold war that can suffocate the lives of entire peoples and generations”.
Speaking in Malta, the Pope quoted Giorgio La Pira, who spoke of the “infantilism of humanity”: “Unfortunately, that infantilism has not disappeared. inability to build bridges and leave the poorest “.
The Pontiff therefore returns to ask for peace for Ukraine: “Now, in the night of the war that has descended on humanity, let us not make the dream of peace vanish,” he said.
Then, while not directly quoting Vladimir Putin, Bergoglio used unequivocal words: “And while once again some powerful, sadly trapped in the anachronistic claims of nationalist interests, provokes and foments conflicts, ordinary people feel the need to build a future that , or it will be together, or it will not be “. “We thought that invasions of other countries, brutal battles and atomic threats were dark memories of a distant past. But the icy wind of war, which brings only death, destruction and hatred, bullied the lives of many and the days of all of them “, he concluded in his speech at the Grand Master’s Palace in front of the authorities and the diplomat of the Mediterranean island.
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Source: Ansa
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