Why the Vatican mediation in the Ukrainian conflict is an unlikely task
propagandaRussia freezes optimism against Peace be upon the fourteenth of Pope Liu in the Ukrainian conflict. According to the Russian News Agency Tass, Foreign Minister Serguéi Lavrov said on Friday that “the scene of peace talks in the Vatican is unrealistic.”
The head of Moscow diplomacy added: “It will not be elegant for the Orthodox countries such as Ukraine and Russia discussion at a Catholic Forum Issues related to eliminating the basic causes of the conflict. According to Lavrov, one of the “basic causes” of the conflict is “a destruction path The Orthodox Church Ukrainian “by Kyiv authorities.
The legal issue of the Patriarchate Kyiv
The Kremlin spokesman referred to the measures taken by Ukraine last summer to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which relies on the Patriarchate in Moscow, and encourages the latest Ukrainian Orthodox Church with a Patriarchate in Kiev as Iman Atouri. For Russia, Patriarch Kirill de Moscow is the only vertical salad with the theological authority of Ukrainian and Russian Orthodoxies.
The issue of the legitimacy of the Patriarchate in Kyiv divides all Orthodoxy, and not only into East ESLAVA Orthodox. The religious definition of Ukraine and Russia is one of the basic elements of the doctrine that lies behind the geopolitical revival of Russia Mir, the Russian scientist.
Religious war and Ukrainian conflict
According to the data of their presidents, Trump and Zelinski, The United States and Ukraine were immediately estimated to be peace efforts in the VaticanEspecially after her approach, which is facilitated by diplomatic facilities from the Apostolic Chair in the Church of San Pedro.
On the contrary, there have been many doubts, whether in the Vatican or in Western Advisors, about Russia’s real intentions to reach high fire. Greek Catholic Bishop (Ukrainian) HLIB Lonchyna has always been skeptical of the real goals of the Kremlin before the peace perspective.
“Liu 14 has no effect on the Russian part. They do not get to know our church at all, on the contrary, they want to destroy it. As in the occupied territories, where the Greek Catholic churches are destroyed.
Greek Catholicism is part of the Catholic churches in the eastern rituals. It is present in the countries of the Orthodox traditions and in the Middle East. They recognize the papal power, but they maintained the rituals of Byzantine.
After the Second World War, the Greek Catholic Catholic, also known as UIATAS, recognized, It was dissolved by the US Social Republics Union in Stalin and stripped of their transmitted and immovable propertyWhich was appointed to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Patriarchate of Moscow. The ecclesiastical authorities were accused by historians of a great proximity to the Soviet Authority, as they are today with the vertical force of the Russian Federation.
Pope Leon was aiming to start it by testing a fire for the Catholic Church as a mediation at the highest political level in the Russian Bakrani conflict. at this point, Optimism of the will of Pope Brevost He will have to travel on the hard path of political realism of a “world war that has gone into parts,” said Francisco, who was seen by many Western sectors of excessive waiver with Moscow, especially when he criticized “NATO barks in the gates of Russia.”
Lack of confidence in Moscow in front of the American Pope
Advisors in the countries that supported the war effort welcomed the Vatican sensitivity to the Ukrainian expectations. to to make, In the first papal block, The Pope announced that “the tormented Ukraine finally expects negotiations For a fair and lasting peace. “
In this regard, Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga announced in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stamba: “The diplomatic process of hosting mediation (in the Vatican) is very difficult. But with Pope Lyon, everything is possible because he has confidence from world leaders.”
However, according to the Cardinal Maradiaga, “Russia does not want to distance itself from the Holy See. No nation, no matter how strong, can act in isolation.” Schakwal Ferrara, Director General of Political Affairs and International Security of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and professor of diplomacy and negotiation at Louis University in Rome: “Lack of confidence in the potential of the Vatican’s potential from Moscow was already with Pope Francis And I think it is still for reasons related to the (historical) (historical) between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. “
Nothing new, enmity and lack of confidence between Catholic and Orthodoxy is due to the split of East 1054. They were the origin of endless wars and the low strikes of my Christian branches. Orthodox does not recognize the authority of the Bishop of Rome (Pope) as a successor of Pedro. Although the calm is linked to the earthly political emergency, religion has regained its old role of great political importance.
A convincing role for the mediator and goodwill to the parties
In the eyes of Moscow, the peace of Pope Lyon, the American Pope, is still a product of the oldest Western institutions, the Catholic Church, and thus my party’s display.
propaganda“I don’t think Putin considers that Vatican mediation can be necessary “However, what matters to mediation is not third like stocks.”
But accepting mediation offer also depends on the true will of the parties to end the fighting on the religious belief of the potential mediator. “Of the Russian part, so far we have not had many signs, there was no expected truce, and there are some important elements that could indicate that there is a real will to create negotiations,” Ferrara said.
The Vatican is calming in the history of the twentieth century
Do not forget that the Sant’egidio community, a secular Catholic organization linked to the Foreign Minister (the Foreign Ministry in the Vatican), was measured by some success in the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, where the two sides were Muslims.
The popes often had the temptation to go down in history as solutions to great conflicts. In the twentieth century, Benedict XII tried to stop the First World War, describing it as “useless killing”, while her eleventh’s successor, Pius, requested Catholics to avoid World War II to attack totalitarianism at that time: fascism, nationalism and Bolshevia. Both efforts failed.
propagandaStalin’s phrase is often mentioned at the Galata Conference: “How many divisions does the Pope have?” In response to US President FD Roosvelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who urged him to pay attention to the authority of Pope Pius XII before engaging in Central and Eastern Europe.
It was clear that, as for realism and materialism, Stalin matters is the power of weapons and the economy. In 1953, upon the death of the Soviet leader, Pius XII was detracting Saying, “Now Stalin will be the number of our sections.”
There is no need to disturb the final final ruling of the eternal father, Revenge from the Catholic Church Forty years after Jalla with John Paul II, and the role played by the Polish ink in the historical acceleration that led to the collapse of the communist regimes created by Galla.
“I would like to take care of skeptical situations regarding capabilities not only for the Vatican, but also I say about religions in the construction dimension of a new international system.”
propagandabut, The church, according to its own faith, cannot give up persuasion attempts even at the highest diplomatic levels And the politicians: “Even in the darkest hours, the role of the church is to cultivate the good word.” And when will the harvest reach? Longina concluded that this depends on God and the will of men.
