Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin apologized to Russia on behalf of the Holy See, announced Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Office.
Edit: it’s almost as if the groups the Vatican offended weren’t actually murdering thugs!!
(Rome) The Vatican apologized to Russia for the recent comments made by Pope Francis in an interview with a US magazine. Moscow said it would accept the apology.
Francis' statements about the Ukraine conflict to the US Jesuit magazine America had caused a stir and upset. On the Western side, there was talk of a “change of course” by the Pope, which meant moving away from a neutral position in favor of the Western one. On the eastern side, on the other hand, people were very upset. The Pope was accused of insult and racism. Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov even called Francis' words "un-Christian".
No course change can be read from the interview. Francis tried to accommodate his interlocutors and the American audience by not condemning Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, but by sharply pillorying the third Russian row. In doing so, he generalized that he attacked the Chechens and Buryats, two small peoples of the Russian Federation, as "particularly cruel." The Chechens are Muslims, the Buryats are Buddhists.
The Vatican Secretariat of State was anything but happy about the papal verdict. The months-long efforts to offer the warring parties the opportunity to act as an impartial mediator for peace talks suddenly seemed to have been wasted.
When Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin tried to take confidence-building measures on Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova countered on the same day:
“Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin believes that the Vatican could be a suitable place to organize a meeting of the parties for a dialogue on Ukraine. I'm afraid my Chechen and Buryat brothers wouldn't appreciate it. As far as I remember, not a word of apology came from the Vatican.”
In any case, the Vatican knew what to do – and reacted after a visit to Santa Marta.
Today Zakharova announced that Moscow has received an apology from the Vatican for the Pope's comments about Chechens and Buryats:
"We have received a message from the Vatican through diplomatic channels containing an official statement on behalf of the Secretary of State of the Holy See, Pietro Parolin, regarding the above statements by the pontiff. In particular, the note states: The Vatican Secretariat of State apologizes to the Russian side.”
At the same time, Zakharova pointed out that
"The Holy See deeply respects all the peoples of Russia, their dignity, faith and culture, as well as other countries and peoples of the world".
The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added:
The apology shows "that the Vatican not only calls for dialogue, but also knows how to conduct the dialogue and listen to the interlocutors. This approach deserves sincere respect.
We believe the incident has been resolved and we look forward to continued constructive engagement with the Vatican.”I’m
The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added:
The apology shows "that the Vatican not only calls for dialogue, but also knows how to conduct the dialogue and listen to the interlocutors. This approach deserves sincere respect.
We believe the incident has been resolved and we look forward to continued constructive engagement with the Vatican.”
Shortly before Moscow made the apology public, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed that there were "diplomatic contacts on the matter," without going into detail.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: VaticanNews/Facebook/Ambasciata delle Fed. Russa (Screenshots)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com
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3 comments:
I don't believe in apologizing to Muslims for acts done in the name of Mohammad the Mad. But, to clarify, the Vatican was attacking and then turned around apologizing those Muslims who were fighting in the name of Russian Independence from globalism.
Why, please explain are Buddists lowlifes. They are in error. The Muslims are in an intrinsically violent and false faith. They too should be converted. But to say that they have no right to fight for the Russian Federation's integrity, having themselves been savagely attacked, it is their moral obligation. They fight for Russia, and as long as Russian still exists, there is still a human hope that the anti family West can be held in check, and Russia can be more fully Christianized
"....Russia can be more fully Christianized.
Start with the USA, the sick man of the Western world.
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