Vatican Secretary of State responds to Russian dissident’s death
February 16, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, told reporters that the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison was “surprising” and “fills us with sorrow.”
Cardinal Parolin declined to comment on whether the death of Navalny, a prominent opponent of President Putin, would alter the Vatican’s relationship with Russia. But he said, “I thought the matter could have been resolved differently.” In Germany Bishop Georg Bätzing, the president of the nation’s episcopal conference, was more outspoken, saying that Navalny’s death “shows how inhumane Putin’s system is when human rights and laws are trampled underfoot.”
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