Our churches must serve peace, Russian Orthodox leader tells papal envoy
July 04, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the papal peace envoy, met with Patriarch Kirill during a recent visit to Moscow. Cardinal Zuppi also met with Yuri Ushakov, the Russian president’s foreign policy advisor.
Cardinal Zuppi, who is also president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, had earlier traveled to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian officials. CNS reported that the “Ukrainian Embassy to the Holy See said on Twitter that it supported the cardinal’s mission to Moscow if it is able to help return illegally deported children to Ukraine, but, it added, ‘we don’t need mediation with Russia.’”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jul. 04, 2023 3:24 PM ET USA
"...we don’t need mediation with Russia." This has been the party line of both the U.S. and Ukraine since the beginning, even going as far back as the original coup in 2014. The vast majority of the history of conflict between the U.S. and Russia since Russia demolished the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact in 1991 has been one of NATO aggression against Russia. Russia is once again Christian, and with the horrendous experience of Communism behind it, Russia is more a peace maker in the world than we are
