In the Sunday Angelus, the Pope returns to pray for the end of the war in Ukraine while the faithful spread a huge flag of peace in St. Peter's Square and many from Ukraine are being waved.
The Pontiff spoke of the "bestiality of war", a "barbaric and sacrilegious act", which "cannot be something inevitable".
"There is a need to repudiate war, a place of death, where fathers and mothers bury their children, where men kill their brothers without having even seen them, where the powerful decide and the poor die - he said -. more than a month since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, since the beginning of this cruel and senseless war which, like any war, represents a defeat for all, for all of us ".
"War not only devastates the present but also the future of a society - Bergoglio's words -. I have read that since the beginning of the aggression in Ukraine one in two children has been displaced from the country. This means destroying the future. , to cause dramatic trauma in the smallest innocents ".
"War cannot be something inevitable - he explained -. We must not get used to war, we must instead convert today's indignation into tomorrow's commitment because if we come out of this affair as before, we will all be guilty in some way. danger of self-destruction, humanity understands that the time has come to abolish war, to erase it from man's history before it is she who erases man from history ”.
"I pray for every political leader - the conclusion - to reflect on this, to commit to this and, looking at the tormented Ukraine, to understand how every day of war worsens the situation for everyone. Therefore I renew my appeal: enough, stop , let their weapons be silent, let us be serious about peace ".
(Unioneonline / D)