Monday, April 18, 2022

Words of hope from Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby

Pope Francis denounces ‘cruel and senseless’ conflict in Ukraine on ‘Easter of war’ - https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/04/pope-denounces-cruel-and-senseless-conflict-in-ukraine-on-easter-of-war/

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in his Easter Sunday sermon said that Jesus addresses all our concerns and we are "caught in his hands".

In his powerful words yesterday the archbishop spoke of the evil of the war in Ukraine and spoke of the importance of peace. He said we did not want to go down the road of Bismarck, who spoke about ‘blood and iron’.

Archbishop Welby was also critical of the UK government’s decision to send illegal emigrants to Rwanda. He also made reference to the financial hardship that people were currently experiencing across the United Kingdom.

2 comments:

Francis Hunt said...

From Zoe Williams in yesterday's Guardian on Welby's sermon:

"... Various Conservative MPs objected to his “moralising”, which five years ago would have been funny – what next, are they going to object to their surgeon being a know-it-all for pointing out where their spleen is? But these days, slating an archbishop for having Christian values is probably the least embarrassing thing they will be asked to do this week..."

Michael Commane said...

Great comment, thank you.

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