The head of the Catholic Church dedicated the first day of his visit to Hungary to advocating for peace in the heart of Europe, according to the report of the Holy See newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, while Cardinal Péter Erdő emphasized Hungary's power of acceptance in the daily newspaper Il Giornale on Saturday.
L'Osservatore Romano published Katalin Novák's speech, with which the head of state welcomed Pope Francis in the Sándor Palace .
Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Catholic Bishops' Conference (Cei), saw
during the head of the church's visit to Hungary, he is "looking for a soul for Europe and peace on the old continent".According to the newspaper, the pope touched on other key topics in his first speeches: advocating action against the tragedy of abortion, and avoiding "ideological colonization", in connection with which he mentioned gender culture.
Speaking to Avvenire Andrea Tornielli , director of the Vatican media group, emphasized that Pope Francis spoke about Budapest "to a silent Europe about peace".
Corriere della Sera noted that without naming Russia, Pope Francis warned Europe that it cannot treat anyone as an "eternal enemy."
According to Il Foglio's commentary, Pope Francis "in Orbán's presence blessed the Europe of the peoples", and quoting the founding fathers of the EU, Alcide De Gasperit, Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman ,
"he urged a Europe of cathedrals instead of a Europe of abstract bureaucracy".Alessandro Gisotti, the deputy director of the Vatican media group, stated on the TV2000 Catholic channel, which broadcasts every minute of the papal visit: it did not take a European pope to warn Europe about the values laid down by the founding fathers.
Péter Erdő , Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, was published in the right-wing Il Giornalé under the title "My Hungary is not a country of walls" Péter Erdő stated that Hungary is characterized by fraternal acceptance: "if a country with ten million inhabitants accepts one and a half million people in one year, there is no question of walls".
The left-wing La Repubblica wrote that Pope Francis' words against gender culture to Viktor Orbán "for the common cause of peace in Kyiv". According to the daily newspaper, Pope Francis and Viktor Orbán "represent an odd couple", but the head of the church's visit to Budapest aims to "highlight the common points, with the shading of the contrasts", after Hungary supports the Vatican's intention to mediate between Kiev and Moscow to start negotiations and avoid the spread of war striving.
Source: MTI
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