The Vatican attempted to quell anger at Pope Francis regarding his comments praising Russia's imperial past, saying he did not intend to praise today's Russia.
The Vatican released a statement clarifying comments from Pope Francis regarding Russia on Wednesday, saying the pope was not praising Russia's current imperialist agenda."We hope that these words of the Holy Father were spoken spontaneously, without any attempt at historical evaluations, let alone support of Russia’s imperialist ambitions," Shevchuk said.
"You are descendants of the great Mother Russia, step forward with it. And thank you – thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russian," he added. "It is very unfortunate that Russian grand-state ideas, which, in fact, are the cause of Russia's chronic aggression, knowingly or unknowingly, come from the Pope's mouth, whose mission, in our understanding, is precisely to open the eyes of Russian youth to the disastrous course of the current Russian leadership," Nikolenko wrote.
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