![]() Acceptance or otherwise must not be a possibility but a prior certainty. “The third party offering to mediate must already be certain, before publicizing the proposal, that it will be accepted. No one would publicly express their willingness to mediate in a conflict without first having secured the acceptance of the parties involved.” The Italian journalist puts forward two reasons to explain this obvious failure: “Serious mistakes were made, precisely from the diplomatic point of view. “It is also true that, the grave responsibility of the European states in arming Ukraine without pushing for any peace process emerged as a result… but it cannot be denied that for Vatican diplomacy it was a failure that has severely tarnished its image.” In La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana of May 17, Stefano Fontana asserts that the Pope's peace mediation was a failed and mismanaged operation: “The refusal of Vatican mediation clearly revealed the Ukrainian president eager to resolve the issue by force of arms alone, not allowing the other side any chance to set the slightest condition.” “This work is about the loss of Ukrainian children in the war of aggression that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.” And the French journalist concludes: “It is terribly significant that there is now an icon in the Vatican where Christ is a black space.” The work is due to a certain Oleksiy Revika who “scribbled a very ugly icon of the Mother of God of Iveron, leaving the place of Christ empty.” The author titled it Loss, and he explained: On the other hand, Yves Daoudal pointed out that Volodymyr Zelensky had offered Francis an icon on which the head of Christ was erased. Because Zelensky is Jewish? Such concealment of the pectoral cross has been used by Francis in the past, as a deliberate gesture, when meeting members of other religions (Jews and Muslims).” “Francis had placed his pectoral cross into his ceinture during the meeting. First, Giuseppe Nardi on noted on May 15 that the Pope had slipped his pectoral cross into his ceinture: Two facts marked this meeting between Francis and the Ukrainian President, on Saturday, May 13, the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima. I invited Pope Francis to go to Ukraine to support in prayer all Ukrainians who suffer from Russian terror and who fight against the evil that has happened on Ukrainian soil.” We cannot mediate with Putin, no country in the world can do that. ![]() ![]() “We invite the Pope, like other leaders, to commit to a just peace, but first we must do everything else. He declared it bluntly: “With all due respect to His Holiness, we don't need mediators, we need a just peace.” On the evening of May 13th, Volodymyr Zelensky took part in a special edition of the television program Porta a Porta, on the Italian public channel RAI 1. This 40-minute meeting showed all the limits of Vatican diplomacy in its efforts to find a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. On May 13, 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was received by Pope Francis. ![]()
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