The Vatican responded to backlash following a speech made by Pope Francis, saying the religious leader did not mean to 'exalt imperialist logic.'
The Vatican said Pope Francis did not intend to "exalt imperialist logic" in his speech Friday.
The Roman Catholic church leader faced backlash after he told a group of young people to remember they are the heirs of past czars and thanked them for their "way of being Russian."Pope Francis attends his weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on August 09, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican.
"In the off-the-cuff greetings to some young Russian Catholics in recent days, as is clear from the context in which he pronounced them, the Pope intended to encourage young people to preserve and promote all that is positive in the great cultural and Russian spirituality, and certainly not to exalt imperialist logic and government personalities, cited to indicate some historical periods of reference," the Vatican's press officer said, in Google-translated comments carried by...
The pope delivered the prepared speech in his native Spanish, before making these off-script comments in Italian. The Pope has previously repeatedly called for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine and spoken against Russia's actions in the conflict. In May, he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and
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