Cardinal Zuppi on Ukraine: Church calls for weapons to fall silent
February 27, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, traveled to Rome to preside at the Community of Sant’Egidio’s prayer vigil for peace in Ukraine.
During the February 24 prayer vigil, held at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Cardinal Zuppi asked, “How can we pray always without growing weary? ... The Church, as Pope Leo XIV has said, asks only that the weapons fall silent, that a ceasefire be reached, and that a path toward peace be opened.”
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