“May a new dawn of hope break soon on this terrible night of suffering and death. Let peace be chosen,” demanded Jorge Bergoglio, 85, speaking in front of nearly 100,000 faithful present in Saint Peter’s Square, according to Vatican estimates.
Return
After more than two years without a mass public due to the pandemic, the pontiff took the opportunity to tour the square in the uncovered popemobile before starting the message on the day that Christians around the world commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after being crucified.
In the message, his twenty-ninth explicit reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began last February, the Pope demanded “that they stop making shows of force while the people suffer.”
“Please, let’s not get used to war, let’s all commit ourselves to asking for peace with a powerful voice, from the balconies and in the streets,” Francis said in front of the faithful, among whom was the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol , Ivan Fedorov, and three parliamentarians from the European country with whom he had met privately on Saturday.
Francis, who gave his blessing after having celebrated the Resurrection Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica, also demanded “that those responsible for nations listen to the people’s cry for peace, that they listen to that disturbing question that scientists asked themselves almost sixty years: Are we going to put an end to the human race or should humanity give up war?”, included in a document written by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell in 1955.
Gratitude
The Pope, who has already expressed his gratitude several times to the countries that are hosting Ukrainian refugees, especially Poland, said that he carries “in his heart the numerous Ukrainian victims, the millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, the divided families, the the elderly who have been left alone, to the shattered lives and the devastated cities”.
Source: Ambito
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