They have to stop giving the Pope in flight drinks.
Well, It Was Secret
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Makes sense all the sirens are going off and being bombed to hell and back.
I’m non-military but if the head of Catholic Church was helping w peace talks and one started bombing the whole country, I think the answer to the deal is: ____ and the horse you rode in on.
And it will be just as successful as all the previous attempts by popes to stop wars. Remember the statement attributed to Stalin early in WW2: “How many divisions has the Pope got?”
Popes in the past have helped negotiate treaties to end wars, but that tends to work only when both sides are weary of war and willing to negotiate.
Thanks, Don. I stand corrected.
I wonder if these two, Putin and Zelensky (two “y”’s or just one?), will tire of the fight before they are assisted out of office?
If they need an intermediary, the Hungarian government will do. Francis will lose his temper and start swatting people.
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Does anyone really think either President Putin or Patriarch Kirill will take that narcissistic egotist seriously?
Putin will play kiss up with him so long as it serves his interests and not for a second longer. Krill is Putin’s puppet.
Right Biden and his state friends support child sacrifice…and yet you mysteriously trust him with the most important foreign policy of our time…if you wouldn’t let him chatechise your kids, why trust him with the world…just saying…oh forgot to throw in the obligatory Putin is bad!!!
He ain’t no St JP2 and brining down Communism- that’s for sure. I’m sure he wish he were.
“Popes in the past have helped negotiate treaties to end wars,…”
That requires both sides be serious about Catholic faith. Putin has never demonstrated any concern; who knows about Zelensky.
As far as “Putin bad” goes, ..I understand he invaded to prevent Ukraine from being more allied with the West, possibly also to regain access to year-round warm-water ports. …Possibly he’s also seeking better access to..whatever he seized in Crimea in 2014. He has cause, from his own point of view.
We’d be foolish to assume he has much concern for the best interests of Ukrainians.
That requires both sides be serious about Catholic faith.
Not at all. It does mean that both sides must be tired of fighting and willing to stop if terms they deem acceptable can be reached. Putin has been attempting to resurrect the old Russian empire with himself as de facto Tzar. He realizes that if he loses in Ukraine the days of his power in Russia are numbered.