Can Vatican become a host for Russian-Ukrainian peace talks? Can Pope Leo Himafale contain? At least some signs indicate in that direction. The Pope Leo XIV, who was elected on 8 May, 2025, as the successor of Pope Francis, who died on April 21, indicated that the Vatican may be ready to mediate. It was further reinforced by Giorgia Meloni, the head of the Italian government.
At the end of Tuesday evening (May 20), Meloni announced on the social media channel X that he had “talked about the next steps with the holy father, which needs to be taken to create a equitable and permanent peace in Ukraine.”
US President Donald Trump and some European heads asked him to “assess the desire of the holy C” to host peace talks. And Pope Leo has confirmed the facility of negotiations in the Vatican between the two sides of the struggle.
In fact, it was Leo that brought this vision to light. When he stepped on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new pop on the evening of 8 May, unknown to the public on a large scale, he started his speech with words, “Jason’s first words resonating, as recorded in the Bible after his resurrection.” How should this statement be explained: spiritual contingent or concrete in the context of global politics.
After this, Leo gave further signs during its inauguration month. His first formal visit was with Volodmi Zelancesi and his wife. The Ukrainian president was one of the first people to agree to the new Pope by telephone in the evening after his election. After the inauguration, Leo, the first American-born Pope, i.e. American Vice President JD Vance and State Secretary Marco Rubio received. Two Catholic politicians were with their wives.
The official Vatican video of the meeting between Leo and Vance shows the politician handing over a large envelope: Donald Trump’s greetings. Thus the questions around Ukraine broadcast with American politicians around this meeting.
It is particularly notable that it took a long time after the Pope Francis on 24 February 2022 after the Ukraine’s Russian invasion, to clearly criticize the aggressive. By that point, they had only eliminated the suffering of the population on both sides, which only caused the victims to mentally criticize, not criminals.
Vatican and Russian Orthodox Church
It was clear that Francis Russian conservative Patrik Kiril, a former KGB person and close Putin did not want to serious relationships. At the same time, Zelansky made it very clear after the death of 88-year-old Francis that the Vatican had repeatedly exchanged the prisoner with the promotion of the promoted countries and supported Ukrainian children who were abducted in Russia.
To convince Vladimir Putin to return to Trump’s irregular and helpless, politicians are now Romnastics who draw their attention to Rome. But what would this be possible – diplomatically, logically and in terms of security?
Recently, the Vatican’s administrative body, Curia, organized and managed two programs of global importance with hundreds of government officials. It was in the context that Trump and Zelansky’s image was sitting on two plain chairs in a side chapel of St. Peter Basilica, quickly, on the occasion of Francis’ funeral ceremony, quickly became distinguished.
Any security case that will overbird men of 120 either Pope Swiss guard, always becomes the responsibility of the Italian state. According to Prime Minister Meloni, his country is “ready to play its role to facilitate contacts and work towards peace.”
Several times February 2022, Francis sent Matteo Maria Zuppi and Kiev as the current president of its most reliable cardinals, Italian Bishop conference, Moscow and Kiev as an intermediary, and once to BE. And in the last week of Francis’s sinner, another cardinal that is traveling in the Ukrainian crisis area.
Is it a matter of weeks?
If both sides are ready, internal sources say, the Vatican with can begin in three or four weeks to try in mediation. But it is clear that the Pope will not be constantly present in the real dialogue. Those dialogues include dialogues at a practical level. The last time Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Vatican for talks in June 2019.
Benjamin Dahlke, Catholic pseudachers at the University of Eachstate and one of the most knowledge experts in Germany at the Church in the US, is “alert” about the possibility of the Vatican’s arbitration between Russia and Ukraine. During his election campaign, President Trump announced that he would “resolve the war. It did not work clearly,” said 43 -year -old in an interview with DW. In his opinion, Trump is looking at the Vatican as a new player to create “a loss” and to create a new movement. ,
Meanwhile, Church law expert Stephen Mukkal, who teaches at Opus Dei University, Rome, emphasizes the importance of the neutral role of the Vatican. He said, “Pope Leo will follow the established position of Holi C, without pointing to any internal preference,” he told Colon. Dome radio Radio station.
Experts from Eastern Church, Regina Elsner, who teaches in Munter, expressed more important approach on Catholic Dome radioHe believes that there is a chance that the church headquarters will be accepted as a neutral conversation site with Italy. However, he said, Pope Francis lost a lot of Dharm Sabha with the Ukrainian side for the final fee of his pontification due to his philanthropic attitude towards Moscow.
Pope’s chief diplomat
Every word that Pope Leo now publicly explained in public is closely monitored worldwide in relation to conflict in Eastern Europe. There is a good opportunity that his “Foreign Minister,” Archbishop Paul Galagher (71), who had been serving the Vatican for 40 years and has been responsible for relations with the states for a good ten years, will be set on trips very soon and will hold talks that are rarely not rarely public.
Last weekend in Rome, US State Secretary Rubio was one of those who met Galagher. According to American media, the politician later spoke with the desire to play a “creative and positive role” with Vatican’s will.
This article was original in German.
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