Category: President Vladimir Putin

On Cuban Missile Crisis anniversary, archbishop calls for nuclear disarmament

by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Archbishop John Wester, Church in the US, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis has Archbishop John Wester looking back to his youth, remembering the “duck and cover” exercises he practiced in school, and lamenting that today’s children still grow up with nuclear threats.

Etienne: Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons ‘are of grave concern’

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, nuclear war, Nuclear weapons, President Vladimir Putin, Russia | 0 |

Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said Oct. 7 he is “increasingly troubled” by Russia’s war against Ukraine and said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible threats” to use nuclear weapons “are of grave concern.”

Pope’s appeal for peace falls on deaf ears

by bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, nuclear war, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

Despite a dramatic recent appeal from Pope Francis to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine to break the cycle of violence, recent indications on both sides seem to suggest that this invitation has fallen on deaf ears.

Pope warns of nuclear war risk; appeals to Putin on Ukraine

by bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Angelus, Associated Press, lead, News, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |

Pope Francis on Sunday appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a cease-fire, imploring him to “stop this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine.

Pope tells Putin: Stop the war

by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Sunday Angelus, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |

With “rivers of blood and tears” still flowing in Ukraine and with the increasing threat of the use of nuclear weapons, Pope Francis begged Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Stop this spiral of violence and death.”

Reactions to Ukraine show the era of Pope as NATO chaplain is over

by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Catholic population, China, demography, lead, Nato, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine | 0 |

The fact that Francis and his Vatican allies sometimes sound more like China, or India, than their historical partners in the West when talking about Ukraine is, naturally, another reason why some Catholic critics are unhappy.

Top Vatican diplomat calls Putin’s nuclear threat ‘repugnant’

by bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic News Service, Holy See Mission to the UN, lead, News, nuclear war, Nuclear weapons, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, United Nations, Vatican | 0 |

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings that he would consider using nuclear weapons is a “repugnant threat” that shows the urgency of moving to eliminate nuclear weapons, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

Moscow patriarch: Russian war dead have their sins forgiven

by bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed in a sermon, comparing their sacrificial death to that of Jesus.

Ukrainian Catholic bishop urges West not to play by Putin’s rules

by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Church in the US, lead, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

Ukraine’s top-ranking Catholic prelate in the United States is urging continued prayers for the nation, and warning world leaders not to “play the game according to [Russian President Vladimir Putin’s] rules.”

Escaping gunfire, pope’s top charity official declares mass graves in Ukraine ‘real’

by bcadmin | Sep 18, 2022 | Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, charity, Divine Mercy, lead, News, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Vatican | 0 |

“We managed to distribute papal rosaries to the soldiers,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said. “Almost all of the Ukrainian soldiers, no matter what their faith was, put the rosary on their neck immediately.”

On border with Russia, Pope urges world leaders to reject ‘destructive rhetoric’ of war

by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, peace, Pope Francis, President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

Pope Francis highlighted a passage of the final declaration of a Kazakhstan inter-faith congress which urges world leaders “to put an end to conflicts and bloodshed everywhere, and to abandon aggressive and destructive rhetoric.”

Pope Francis in Kazakhstan likely to find three empty chairs

by bcadmin | Sep 11, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, Interfaith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, News Analysis, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping | 0 |

As Pope Francis heads to the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan this week, there’s a sense in which the biggest story is likely to be about who isn’t on hand as much as who is.