For the first time since he was elected Pedro’s successor, Pope Leo XIV granted a television interview on Thursday. After visiting the Vatican Radio Radio Radio Transmission Center, in the extraterritorial zone of Santa María de Galeria, a journalist of the TG1 news program of the RAI, the Italian public television, spontaneously directed some questions.
The pontiff was questioned about the serious international situation, especially after the war escalation between Israel and Iran.
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“It is truly worrying. Day and night I try to follow a little what is happening in so many parts of the world. There is above all about the Middle East today, but it is not just there,” he said.
Thus, as he did at the general audience on Wednesday, he renewed his call to peace in the world and asked to “seek at all costs to avoid the use of weapons” and to advance “through the diplomatic instruments the dialogue.”
“There are many innocents who are dying, and we must always promote peace,” he insisted.
The Pope explained that he had taken advantage of the fact that this Thursday was a party in the Vatican for the solemnity of Corpus Christi (in Latin, body of Christ) to visit those lands of the Vatican radio on which a photovoltaic solar energy system has been projected.
This project will allow the small state to stock up with sustainable energy.
“The Vatican has begun a project that we hope everything goes well and will truly be an ecological contribution, also for the good of the entire area of Italy, of the Vatican,” said the Pontiff.
He also stressed the ecological commitment of the Catholic Church: “We all know the effects of climate change and we must truly take care of the world, all creation, as Pope Francis has taught so clearly.”
He also visited the land on which a photovoltaic solar energy system has been projected that will allow the small state to stock up with sustainable energy.
“The Vatican has begun a project that we hope everything goes well and will truly be an ecological contribution, also for the good of the entire area of Italy, of the Vatican,” said the Pontiff.
He also stressed the ecological commitment of the Catholic Church: “We all know the effects of climate change and we must truly take care of the world, all creation, as Pope Francis has taught so clearly.”
The Holy Father assured that he listened to Radio Vatican during his years as a missionary in Peru. “In Latin America, many times even in mountains where there were no other possibilities, the Vatican radio arrived. He always carried a small radio with me,” he said.
Victoria Cardiel
Victoria Cardiel is a journalist specialized in social and religious information issues. Since 2013, he has covered all the news of the Vatican for various media, such as the Spanish news agency Europa Press, or the weekly of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Alfa and Omega.