The war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several 'empires' and not only by Russia's interests, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday.
Pope Francis expressed a readiness to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for peace. File photo.The war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several “empires” and not only by Russia's interests, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday.
Francis said the conflict was fuelled by “imperial interests, not only of the Russian empire, but of empires from elsewhere”.The pontiff was speaking to Italian Swiss television RSI in an interview due to be broadcast on Sunday. Extracts were published on Friday by Italian dailiesFrancis, who is 86 and marks the 10th anniversary of his election on March 13, also said he would resign if he got too tired and lost the capacity to govern the Roman Catholic Church.
Asked what would lead him to make the same decision to quit, Francis said: “A tiredness that doesn't make you see things clearly. A lack of clarity, of knowing how to evaluate situations.”“I am old. I have less physical resistance. The knee was a physical humiliation, even if the recovery is going well now,” he said.
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