The threat of a global conflict triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine needs to convince everyone that the time has come for humanity to abolish war, before it ends humanity, Pope Francis said on Sunday.
“More than a month has passed since the invasion of Ukraine, since the beginning of this cruel and senseless war that, like every war, is a defeat for everyone, for all of us,” he told thousands of people in St. during your Sunday blessing.
“We have to repudiate war, a place of death where fathers and mothers bury their children, where men kill their brothers without even seeing them, where the powerful decide and the poor die,” he added.
The war in Ukraine is destroying the country’s future, he said, citing the statistic that half of Ukraine’s children had to flee the country.
“This is the bestiality of war, something that is barbaric and sacrilegious,” he said, encouraging his listeners not to regard war as inevitable or something to get used to.
“If we get out of this [guerra] just as we entered, we will all be, in some way, to blame. Faced with the danger of self-destruction, humanity needs to understand that the time has come to abolish war, to cancel it from the history of man before it cancels man from history,” he said.
Since Russia invaded the neighboring country on February 24, Pope Francis has spoken several times about a possible nuclear conflict.
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