Many Catholics around the war in Ukraine, where it is clear who was the aggressor and how it all started, advocated solutions that help the villain Putin. For example, the extremely influential, both politically and socially, Catholic community Sant’Egidio and its head Andrea Riccardi publicly presented to Putin and Zelensky a request to declare Kyiv an “open city”. In the name of peace, of course.
But in the text they wrote, receiving the right-hand man of the Russian Patriarch Kirill for a visit, not only was no distinction made between the aggressor and the attacked, not only were people of good will and the international community not invited to help and support the attacked, but it was proposed that physical control over his government centers be removed from the legitimate Ukrainian political authority and that a kind of victory be handed over to Putin, who…
