According to Pope Francis, the Vatican is involved in a peacekeeping mission to end the war in Ukraine. “I am ready to do whatever needs to be done,” Pope Francis said today on the flight home from his visit to Hungary. “There’s a mission going on now, but it’s not public yet.” He will let you know when the time comes.
In Hungary he spoke to Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion about the situation in Ukraine. “Everyone is interested in the path to peace.”
Appeal and indirect criticism of Orban
At a mass in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, Francis asked the faithful to be open. It was sad and painful to “see closed doors to people,” said the head of the Catholic Church on Sunday morning during the service on Kossuth Square.
Above all, he criticized the “closed doors to strangers, to others, to migrants, to the poor”. “Please: let’s open the doors,” he said in front of around 50,000 visitors.
His statements in Hungary had previously been eagerly awaited. The appeal to open the doors can be interpreted as indirect criticism of Orban’s policy of sealing off those seeking protection. Orban rejects the immigration of migrants and therefore had fences erected on the border with Serbia. He sees himself as a protector of Christian values.
