“After World War II, there were great hopes at the United Nations,” says Pope Francis in an interview with Argentina’s Telam agency, point where they do not have the power to establish themselves. “They help to avoid wars, and I am thinking of Cyprus, where there are Argentine troops – he adds – but to end a war, to resolve a conflict situation like the ones we are experiencing in Europe today or the ones we are experiencing in other parts of the world, they have no power “No offense. It’s just that their constitution doesn’t give them any powers.” who are in crisis or, worse, in conflict”. “Those who are in crisis give me hope for possible progress – he notes -. “At this moment we need courage and creativity – warns Franzisk us-. Without these two elements, we will not have international institutions that can help us to overcome these very serious conflicts, these deadly situations.”
“Unfortunately, a war is a cruelty every day. In war you don’t dance the minuet, you kill. And there is a whole arms sales structure that favors him.” Pope Francis said this in an interview with the Argentine agency Telam. “Someone expert in statistics told me, I don’t remember the figures, that if weapons were not made for a year – he stresses – there would be no hunger in the world. I think it’s time to rethink the concept of ‘just war’. There may be a just war, there is the right to defend oneself, but the way the concept is used today needs to be reconsidered.”
“In Europe, they are having a very sad experience with populism. A book has just been published, ‘Syndrome 1933’, which shows how Hitler’s populism came about. That’s why I like to say: Let’s not confuse populism with populism.” That’s what Pope Francis said in an interview with the Argentine agency Telam. “Popularism – he explains – is when people go about their business, express their thoughts in dialogue and are sovereign. Populism is an ideology that unites people, trying to group them in one direction. And here, when you talk to them about fascism and Nazism, they understand what populism is.”
Su Putin the media manipulated my words In an interview with the Argentine agency Telam, Pope Francis addresses the manipulations of the media and affirms that “they take a sentence out of context and make you say what you didn’t want to say. In other words, you must be very careful”. “For example with the war – he continues – there was a whole controversy about my statement in a Jesuit magazine: I said that ‘there are neither good nor bad people here’, and I explained why. Just that statement and they said: ‘The Pope does not condemn Putin!'”. “The reality – explains the Pope – is that the state of war is something much more universal and serious and there is no such thing as good and evil. We are all involved and we have to learn that.”
Pope Francis, in an interview with the Argentine agency Telam, recalls having used the phrase “torn the world war to pieces” since 2014. “What’s happening in Ukraine, we live close together and that’s why we’re worried – he notes – but we’re thinking about Rwanda 25 years ago, Syria 10 years ago, Lebanon with its internal struggles or Myanmar today. What we see has been happening for a long time. ” “I have reiterated that the use and possession of nuclear weapons is immoral – the Pope continues –. Solving things with a war means saying no to the capacity for dialogue, for the constructive, that men have. This ability to dialogue is very important. I leave the war and move on to common behavior. Keep this in mind when you’re talking to people and they interrupt you and answer you before you’re done. We don’t know how to listen to each other. We don’t let the other person have their say. We have to listen. When we hear what he says, receive, we first declare war, that is, we interrupt the dialogue. Because war is essentially a lack of dialogue “.” When I went to Redipuglia in 2014 for the centenary of the 1914 war, I saw the ages of the dead in the cemetery and I cried – Bergoglio recalls -. I cried that day. On November 2nd, a few years later, I went to the Anzio Cemetery and when I saw the ages of these dead boys, I cried again. I’m not ashamed to say it. What cruelty! And as the anniversary of the Normandy landings came around, I thought of the 30,000 boys who were left lifeless on the beach. They opened the boats and ordered them, “Get off, get off,” while the Nazis waited for them. Is that justifiable? Visiting military cemeteries in Europe helps to recognize this.”