In Visit to Malta Saturday, the Argentine pontiff indicated that the hypothesis of its displacement in kyiv is “on the table”.
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On the way to Rome, around the year 60, the Apostle Paul had been sinking near the Maltese coast and had been collected by the Aboriginal people, who had welcomed him and that he had not failed ‘evangelize. Saturday, April 2, Pope Francis, Successor of Peter, arrived in Malta for a two-day visit to an archipelago where Catholic practice, albeit very widespread, is as elsewhere in recoil, a movement accentuated by the pandemic. The crowd that was massaged along the way, from the airport, then in front of the presidential palace, testified, however, that the Catholic footprint remains very strong.
The announcement of the Gospel, placed by the Argentine pontiff at the heart of the new Constitution of the Vatican, promulgated on March 19, owned initially to be one of the major themes of this Mediterranean journey. The war in Ukraine has stolen the star. The head of the Catholic Church devoted to the conflict nearly half of the long speech he delivered on his arrival, as with every trip abroad, before the political leaders of the country, Saturday morning.
Since the invasion of Ukraine, February 24, François has increased the objurgations to stop “this wild cruelty”, “this violent aggression against Ukraine”, “this repugnant war”. But so far it had been refused to incriminate namely Russia or Vladimir Putin, in accordance with Rome, to the diplomatic tradition of the Holy See, concerned that it is not enlisted by the parties in conflict and maintain an ability to speak with all. “The Pope is neither a journalist nor a policy. He is the pope and he acts in Pope,” Twitted one of his relatives, Antonio Spadaro, director of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica.
Saturday, evoking “the darkness of the war” and “martyred Ukraine”, François did not derogate from this line of conduct. But he seamlessly identified the profile of the warmonger he has portrayed (in the plural in the French version provided by the Vatican, but to the singular in Italian and in the English translation) as “some powerful, sadly locked in his Anachronistic pretensions of nationalist interests “which foments” invasions of other countries, violent urban fighting and atomic threats “. The silhouette of the Russian president is emerging. “The night of the war has slaughtered humanity,” he said. Asked the same morning on the aircraft on the invitation sent to him the Mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, and that the Ukrainian President Volodyymr Zelensy supported, to go to the besieged capital he replied that the hypothesis was “on the table”.
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