{"id":1373177,"date":"2022-03-12T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373177"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:01:12","slug":"vatican-decries-folly-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-decries-folly-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Decries \u2018Folly\u2019 of Russian Invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-decries-folly-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Saturday that the Russian war on Ukraine is a \u201cbarbarity\u201d and called for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The position of the Holy See is \u201ca strong \u2018no\u2019 to war; war is madness, it must be stopped,\u201d Cardinal Parolin said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/vatican-city\/news\/2022-03\/ukraine-war-parolin-interview-tornielli.html\">interview<\/a> with Vatican News. \u201cWe ask, appealing to the consciences of all that the fighting cease immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The cardinal went on to deplore the Russian attacks on civilians, evoking images of the suffering of an innocent population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have before our eyes the terrible images coming from Ukraine,\u201d Parolin declared. \u201cThe victims among the civilians, women, elderly people, and defenseless children who have paid with their lives for the folly of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anguish grows as we see cities with gutted houses, no electricity, sub-zero temperatures, lack of food and medicine, as well as millions of refugees, mostly women and children, fleeing the bombs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20199884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/women-children-Ukraine-Russia-war-hospital-corridor-floor-ap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women and children sit on the floor of a corridor in a hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine Friday, March 11, 2022. Mariupol has been under siege for over a week, with no electricity, gas, or water (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few days, I have come across a group of them, who have arrived in Italy from various parts of Ukraine: blank stares, faces without smiles, endless sadness,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat is the fault of those young mothers and their children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have to possess a heart of stone in order to remain impassive and allow this havoc to continue, as rivers of blood and tears continue to flow. War is a barbarity!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parolin also cited the Italian Constitution in which Italy \u201crepudiates war as an instrument of offence against the freedom of other peoples and as a means of settling international disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who wage war rely on the diabolical logic of weapons and forget humanity: how many examples do we have of the truth of these words!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The cardinal related that in his telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov this week he had appealed for an \u201cimmediate ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked for an end to the fighting and for a negotiated solution to the conflict,\u201d he said. \u201cI insisted on respect for the civilian population and on humanitarian corridors\u201d while also offering the Holy See\u2019s \u201ctotal availability\u201d for any mediation that could favor peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWar is like a cancer that grows, expands and feeds on itself,\u201d Parolin declared, noting that when \u201ca conflict is underway, when the number of defenseless victims grows, it is always difficult to turn back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have \u201cfallen into a vortex that can have incalculable and ill-fated consequences for everyone,\u201d the cardinal lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned of possible long-term consequences as fears grow that war is an inevitability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we see that in the face of what is happening in Ukraine, many people are talking about rearmament: new and huge sums of money are being allocated to armaments, the logic of war seems to prevail, the distance between nations is increasing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are falling back into the past instead of daring to take steps towards a different future, a future of peaceful coexistence,\u201d he cautioned. \u201cUnfortunately, it must be acknowledged that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we have not been able to build a new system of coexistence between nations that goes beyond military alliances or economic convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current war in Ukraine makes this defeat clear,\u201d he stated. \u201cBut I would also like to say that it is never too late, it is never too late to make peace, it is never too late to retrace one\u2019s steps and find an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Saturday that the Russian war on Ukraine is a \u201cbarbarity\u201d and called for an immediate ceasefire. 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