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Pope Francis is mocked and castigated for daring to propose negotiation to end the bloodshed and destruction By ITV staff/CNAVatican, May 13, 2023. Pope Francis meets the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr ZelenskyPope Francis granted an interview March 9 in which he may have unwittingly dealt a blow

Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Pope Francis appeal for negotiations not a call for surrender

In an interview with Italian media, Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin defended Pope Francis’s recent controversial remarks suggesting that Ukraine step back and open to negotiations in its ongoing war with Russia.

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Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in exclusive interview with Aleteia, sees his nation rediscovering its Christian heritage.

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The 67-year-old Bishop of Shamshabad was elected yesterday by the local Synod in Kochi and confirmed by Pope Francis. In his first words to the faithful, he said that “we should stand together and work together.” The Eastern rite community of six million members has been shaken in recent years by a major row over the liturgy centred in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

However, Catholics in Syro-Malabar archdiocese say it ‘will not be blanket acceptance of liturgical rubrics’

The new norms make the Exarchate for Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine rite in Italy (established in 2019) a member of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

The ball is in the Holy See’s court as the Syro-Malabar Church and the papal delegate failed to resolve it