I think of so much cruelty, so many innocents who are paying for madness, the madness of all sides, because war is madness and no one in war can say: ‘No, I am not mad.’ The madness of war.
On this six-month anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Pope spoke at length about the suffering caused by war.
The Holy Father speaks about Ukraine in nearly every meeting with the general public, and at the end of today's Wednesday audience, he made a lengthy appeal, naming some of the specific areas of suffering:
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