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the vatican controls the WHO and the UN

 

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND THE VATICAN CONNECTION

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Wonder if these old links will work?

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Anonymous ID: 0ae0f6 May 20, 2022, 12:39 p.m. No.16311793   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1939

Pope Francis’s refusal to condemn Putin spurs debate in Catholic Church

By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli

Updated May 20, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. EDT|Published May 20, 2022 at 7:55 a.m. EDT

 

VATICAN CITY — In the nearly three months since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis has spoken repeatedly about the suffering of Ukrainians. He’s called the war “cruel and senseless” and kissed the Ukrainian flag. Last week, he met with Ukrainian women who said their husbands were defending the besieged Mariupol steel plant.

 

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But the pope’s messaging about the war, even to some supporters, has also been head-scratching.

 

He has conspicuously avoided condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as the aggressor. He has criticized the West’s sanctions and defense spending. And in an interview published this month by an Italian newspaper, Francis appeared to echo a Kremlin talking point, describing the “barking of NATO at Russia’s door” as one of the triggers for Putin’s wrath.

 

For Francis, 85, the war has become a second epochal event, after the pandemic, that has come to define the agenda of his pontificate. And while he was widely recognized for his clear-eyed take on the coronavirus — the isolation it engendered, the dangers of inequitable vaccine distribution — Francis has spurred a debate within the church about his approach to the war and whether he is being too cautious toward Russia and too bent on maintaining ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.

 

“There are people, like me, who think how he has acted so far is not enough,” said Thomas Bremer, a theologian at the University of Münster, who argued that both Russia and the Russian church have become too compromised to merit an attempt at maintaining good relations. “There is no ‘business as usual’ possible right now. It can’t be like it was six months ago.”

 

Defenders of Francis’s strategy say the pope is maintaining a neutrality that has long been at the center of Holy See diplomacy. Francis has said it’s not the role of a pontiff to call out a head of state. And in contrast to World War II, when Jewish communities accused the church of turning a blind eye, Francis is highlighting the suffering that is happening.

 

The pope has positioned himself in a way that could, in theory, make the church a credible player in any mediation — something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said would be “appreciated.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/20/pope-francis-putin-ukraine-war/