Pope Leo XIV received this Thursday in the Vatican to the president of Poland, the Catholic Andrzej Doube, with whom he spoke on various issues such as the war in Ukraine.
The press office of the Holy See He informed that the meeting was held at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Then he doubts with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State; and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for relations with international states and organizations.
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The Vatican said that “during the cordial conversations held in the Secretary of State, the mutual appreciation was reaffirmed by the solid bilateral relations and there was talk of the socio -political situation of the country.”
“In the course of the conversation, international issues were considered, with special attention to the war in Ukraine,” adds the Vatican’s note.
Doubt, that in respect he greeted Pope León making a genuflection and kissing the fisherman’s ring, he commented that “this was a specific presidential visit, because on the one hand it is a welcome visit, since the Holy Father was chosen and began his pontificate recently, and for me it is also a farewell visit to the front of the Polish state”, since he will soon assume the position of president -elect, Karol Nawrocki.
As noted Vatican News en PolacoDoubt also said that in 2027 the 150th anniversary of the appearances in Gietrzwałd and “the Holy Father can always come to visit us and we always expect it.”
On the war in Ukraine and the efforts to achieve peace, the Polish president said that he expressed to Pope Leo XIV that seemed to him “a very interesting and realistic idea that these peace conversations are celebrated, so to speak, under the auspices of the Holy See.” “Maybe in the Vatican, but, as I said, there are also other very symbolic places, such as Castel Gandolfo,” he said.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.