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Pope Francis and the Holy See tread a fine line in responding to Russia's war on Ukraine, balancing statesmanship and spiritual values amid the 11-year conflict, said a Ukrainian Catholic church historian.SECAM Day: Church in Africa called to bring Gospel to the world
The nonprofit association was founded in 1974 by Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, who spent 18 years in Soviet captivity for his faith until his 1963 release, which was obtained through negotiations between Pope John XXIII and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Under the terms of the release, the cardinal was exiled to Rome, where he lived for two decades until his death in 1984.
Yet"despite considerable criticism of the Holy See's stance on the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the pope and Vatican diplomats working on this issue are not enemies of Ukraine," said Babynskyi, pointing out that"Pope Francis has addressed the war several hundred times and continues to do so almost every week."
Those algorithms reflect a"spirit of impartiality" championed under Pope Benedict XV by Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, said Babynski, quoting the 1929 Lateran Treaty, under which the Holy See pledged to take"no part in any temporal rivalries between other states, nor in any international congresses called to settle such matters," with Vatican City remaining"neutral and inviolable territory.
Caution can risk becoming complicity, he said, given Russia's aim of"destroying the system of human rights and the value of human dignity, which the Catholic Church considers fundamental to its social doctrine." He stressed that"for the further healthy development of ecumenical dialogue," the Vatican must forego"a nostalgic or romanticized view of Russian religious tradition" and recognize"the Russian Church's … involvement in promoting nationalist and expansionist ideologies that have justified acts of aggression."
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