Pope may visit Ukraine
14 December 15:17
Pope Leo XIV is ready to come to Ukraine, but there are difficulties related to security issues. However, the Vatican has already developed an organizational plan that will allow him to make this visit.
This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to ANSA.
“I hope so (the visit to Ukraine – ed.), but I do not know when. We need to be realistic in such things,” the Pope told reporters after a recent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Pope Leo XIV reiterated his wish to make every effort to achieve a “just and lasting peace.”
He called on Italian diplomats to do the same.
In order to “preserve and promote true peace, you must be people of dialogue, wise in reading the signs of the times according to the code of Christian humanism that underlies Italian and European culture,” the Pope said.
On December 9, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid an official visit to Rome.
One of the meetings was an audience with Pope Leo XIV, which lasted 30 minutes in a closed format. The Holy Father received the Ukrainian leader at his residence in Castel Gandolfo.
