Ukraine ceasefire could begin in hours, if Russia agreed: Cardinal Parolin
November 18, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: “We cannot resign ourselves to the inevitability of war,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in a Vatican News interview timed for the 1,000th day of the war in Ukraine.
The Vatican Secretary of State said “we cannot get used to or remain indifferent to the news that reaches us every day of more deaths and destruction.”
Cardinal Parolin said that although negotiations to bring about a just and secure peace could take time, “a truce shared by all the parties involved—primarily made possible by Russia, which initiated the conflict and should cease its aggression—could happen in a few hours.”
Until the fighting in stopped, the cardinal warned, “This war risks dragging us into a nuclear confrontation: a descent into the abyss.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Nov. 18, 2024 7:23 PM ET USA
Parolin should take up his concerns with Pope Francis, who refreshingly views the West-East confrontation in Ukraine with clear vision. Francis understands that Ukraine is a pawn in the conflict between cultures: secular in the West and a re-flourishing of Christianity in the East. Unfortunately, it appears that Trump is tending toward the Evangelical mindset that remains locked in the Cold War, not admitting that the Soviet Union, Russian Communism, and the Warsaw Pact are ancient history.
