{"id":1515993,"date":"2022-06-14T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515993"},"modified":"2022-06-14T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T22:04:50","slug":"world-war-iii-has-been-declared-pope-francis-weighs-in-on-complex-situation-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-war-iii-has-been-declared-pope-francis-weighs-in-on-complex-situation-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World War III Has Been Declared\u2019: Pope Francis Weighs In On \u2018Complex\u2019 Situation In 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\">30<\/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%2Fworld-war-iii-has-been-declared-pope-francis-weighs-in-on-complex-situation-in-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=1515993&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>The vicar of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has declared that \u201cWorld War III\u201d has begun due to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and that \u201cthere are no metaphysical good guys and bad guys\u201d participating in this calamity.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Catholic outlet America Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/politics-society\/2022\/06\/14\/pope-francis-war-ukraine-nato-243153\">flagged<\/a> that the pope made his comments to the Italian Jesuit publication, \u201cLa Civilt\u00e0 Cattolica,\u201d as well as a secular newspaper, \u201cLa Stampa.\u201d The interview was released on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is at war,\u201d Pope Francis claimed. \u201cFor me, today, World War III has been declared. This is something that should give us pause for thought. What is happening to humanity that we have had three world wars in a century?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope also suggested that the situation is not as simple as the media presents it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am simply against reducing complexity to the distinction between good guys and bad guys without reasoning about roots and interests, which are complex,\u201d Pope Francis said. \u201cWhile we see the ferocity, the cruelty of Russian troops, we must not forget real problems if we want them to be solved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked, \u201cWhat are your suggestions for communicating the situation in which we are living? How can we contribute to a peaceful future?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo answer this question, we have to move away from the normal pattern of \u2018Little Red Riding Hood\u2019: Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was the bad guy,\u201d the pope responded. \u201cHere there are no metaphysical good guys and bad guys, in an abstract sense. Something global is emerging, with elements that are very much intertwined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope also explained why he believed that Russia was possibly \u201cprovoked\u201d into war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 a couple of months before the war started, I met a head of state, a wise man, who speaks very little, very wise indeed,\u201d the pope told the European outlets, \u201cAfter we talked about the things he wanted to talk about, he told me that he was very concerned about the way NATO was moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked him why, and he said, \u2018They are barking at the gates of Russia. They do not understand that the Russians are imperialists and will allow no foreign power to approach them,\u2019\u201d the pope continued. \u201cHe concluded, \u2018The situation could lead to war.\u2019 This was his opinion. On Feb. 24, the war began. That head of state was able to read the signs of what was taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope has consistently prayed for an end to the war since it began and has pled for peace.<\/p>\n<p>In March, shortly after the war began, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pope-francis-consecrates-russia-ukraine-to-immaculate-heart-of-mary-drawing-on-prophecy-on-russia-world-war-from-our-lady-of-fatima\">reported<\/a> that Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to \u201cthe Immaculate Heart of Mary,\u201d asking for her intercession to end the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vicar of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has declared that \u201cWorld War III\u201d has begun due to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and that \u201cthere are no metaphysical good guys and bad guys\u201d participating in this calamity. On Tuesday, the Catholic outlet America Magazine flagged that the pope made his comments to the Italian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1516018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}