Posted on 09/28/2023 9:55:09 AM PDT by ebb tide
A month after Pope Francis spoke in favorable terms about Russia’s imperial past, the diplomatic ramifications still reverberate. Last week, the Holy Father received the credentials of the new Russian ambassador, a rather routine encounter, though with a Vatican statement about how friendly the meeting was.
A few days later, on Friday, the Holy Father received the Ukrainian ambassador to the Holy See in a private audience, which is absolutely not a routine encounter. Ambassadors to the Holy See get two meetings with the pope, both pro forma — one when they present their credentials and another upon departure. Otherwise, they meet with officials in the Secretariat of State and, in particularly grave moments, with the secretary of state himself.
But given how disappointed Ukrainians and other Central and Eastern Europeans have been with the Holy Father’s comments regarding Russia, it was likely thought necessary to get the Ukrainian ambassador in immediately in order to forestall any further deterioration of relations.
The Holy See can ill afford another August crisis.
Ukrainian independence day is Aug. 24. Pope Francis chose that day in 2022 — the first year of the full-scale war — to lament Russian “innocents” killed in the war. That brought forth the most thundering denunciation in the recent history of papal diplomacy.
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So what nickname does Il Papa post on FR?
So I guess the Pope loves Russia and is against the Globalists....
Different globalists, that's all.
At what point does it become obvious that the KGB had/has kompromat on this dude?
One could pose the same question in regards to Bergoglio's subservient fawning to his favorite red, and fellow, dictator, Xi Jinping.
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