Pope Francis calls for peace again and remains silent about the “white flag”. Pope Francis prayed for an end to the war at the traditional general audience in St.
Peter's Square on Wednesday (March 13) He did not address the controversy surrounding his recent comments about the Ukraine war in an interview published Saturday. There the pontiff spoke of the ‘courage’ to “raise the white flag’. “One must not capitulate to evil”: Criticism of the Pope’s ‘white flag' came from many quarters.