IT’S PRETTY BAD WHEN THE VATICAN EDITORIALIST HAS TO DEFEND THE POPE AND REACT TO THE LIBERAL/HETERODOX NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER’S NEGATIVE EDITORIAL ON THE POPE’S INACTION

 

Pope Francis is evidentially stung by how the secular media, both liberal and conservative, have completely ignored him on Ukraine (His Holiness was completely missing in action last week) and the liberal Catholic press’ criticism of him for his weak response to date:

Press title for Vatican News editorial:

The voice of the Pope which cries in the desert

The Successor of Peter, who in recent years has prophetically warned of the Third World War already in the offing, follows in the footsteps of his predecessors and stands with the innocent, fighting evil with good.

By Andrea Tornielli

Money byte:

In recent weeks, Pope Francis has been the subject of some criticism from those who hoped that in his public statements he would explicitly mention the name of Vladimir Putin and Russia, as if the words of the pastor of the universal Church were supposed to reflect the dictates of a television news set list. Since this did not happen, the voice of the Pope was not given much attention, as his appeals did not correspond to the desired cliché of the Pontiff "chaplain" of the West, ready to enlist God and bless war in his name.

There are those who have accused the Pope of "silence" for not having explicitly named Putin, forgetting that when the war began, the pontiffs never called the aggressor by name and surname, not out of cowardice or an excess of diplomatic prudence, but in order not to close the door, in order to always leave a crack open to the possibility of stopping evil and saving human lives.