The Chancellor, who traveled to Rome with a delegation to the Mass at the start of the new Pope, was able to meet the Pontifex shortly after the solemn service. “I told the Pope in English that it would be a great pleasure for us to greet him in Austria,” said Stocker after the fair on Sunday in an interview with Austrian media in Rome.
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“After the fair, I had the opportunity to get to know the Pope briefly and exchange a few words. I took the opportunity to send the Pope the best wishes of the Austrian Republic and invite him to us. When Cardinal was Robert Francis Prevost in Vienna. I told him that I would be happy if he was now visiting Austria again. Comes, “said Stocker.
“Voice of the Pope is of the greatest importance”
The Chancellor expressed the hope that “the Pope’s voice for peace and tolerance will be heard in difficult times of conflicts”. “The pope’s voice is of great importance in these hard times. The new pontificate is many hopes,” said Stocker.
Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger (NEOS), Federal Council President Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler (ÖVP) and National Council President Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ) also included the Austrian delegation. The domestic Catholic Church was represented with the chairman of the Bishops’ Conference, Salzburg’s Archbishop Franz Lackner, and Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl.
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Image: (APA/BKA/Florian Schrötter)
Source: Nachrichten
