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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Son of a bitch is getting cocky after taking over the US Supreme Court

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Let's just take that white flag, add a blue stripe in the middle, and give it to the Russians to raise.

Oh wait, they would go to jail. Well let's help them make the upcoming elections actually fair for once.

Oh wait, that would be the 2020 Belarusian protests all over again. Well let's just simply wait until we get a new Pope. Surely it can't take too long.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

I mean I don't agree with him but he is sticking to his beliefs here. Something something turn the other cheek.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I would have expected Patriarch Kirill to say something like this. But the Pope? Not so much.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Why? The Pope is a PR figurehead and an his words are manufactured by a PR department. If you ever fell for his good guy act, I feel bad for you

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[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago
[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Pax vobiscum.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Pope doesn't recognize the Autocephaly of the Ukrainian church as much as the Moscow Patriarch doesn't. There isn't a great amount of support coming from the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in Ukraine.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Pope Francis has been criticised after saying Ukraine should have the courage of the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia.

Some politicians and commentators in Europe reacted with anger after the pontiff appeared to stay silent on Russia’s crimes as aggressor in the invasion, which has killed tens of thousands, and placed the onus on Ukraine to make peace.

Dennis Radtke, a German Christian Democrat MEP, said the word “shameful” could be used to describe the pope’s comments.

In an interview broadcast on Saturday by Swiss television, but which the Vatican said was conducted in February, the pontiff urged parties in the Ukraine war to “have the courage to negotiate”, and do so “before things get worse”.

The Vatican’s director of communications, Matteo Bruni, issued a statement seeking to clarify the pope’s words.

He said Francis had used the term white flag “to indicate a cessation of hostilities, a truce reached with the courage of negotiation”.


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