Pope Francis renewed his appeal for peace in “battered” Ukraine on Sunday and said now is the time to abolish war before it erases humanity from history.
“More than a month has passed since the invasion of Ukraine, since the start of this cruel and senseless war, which, like every war, is a defeat for all, for all of us,” he said Sunday during his weekly Angelus address.
“We must repudiate war, a place of death where fathers and mothers bury their children, where men kill their brothers without even seeing them, where the powerful decide and the poor die. War does not only devastate the present but also the future of society,” he went on to say
The Pontiff reiterated his appeal for an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
“Faced with the danger of self-destruction, humanity must understand that the time has come to abolish war. To erase it from human history before it erases man from history,” he said
“Enough. Stop. Let the weapons fall silent. Negotiate seriously for peace,” he said. “War cannot be something that is inevitable. We cannot get used to war.”
(CNN)
