"There is a need to repudiate war as 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".
The Pope said this at the Angelus when he returned to pray for peace in Ukraine.
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More than a month has passed 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 ",
he recalled. Francis spoke of" bestiality. of war ", a" barbaric and sacrilegious act "." War cannot be something inevitable ", underlined the Pontiff.
"War not only devastates the present but also the future of a society. 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, causing dramatic trauma in the most little innocents ".
The Pope said this at the Angelus.
"War cannot be something inevitable. 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".
The Pope said this at the Angelus.
"Faced with the danger of self-destruction, humanity understands that the time has come to abolish war, to erase it from man's history before it is he who erases man from history".
"I pray for every political leader - continued the Pope - 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 - he concluded - I renew my appeal: enough, stop, shut up,