“Faced with the increasingly concrete threat of world war, the vocation of diplomacy is to promote dialogue with all, even with those interlocutors who are considered ‘uncomfortable’ or who would not feel legitimized to negotiate,” the Pope said. In his speech, the Pope emphasized that “a diplomacy of hope” is necessary. This is the only way “to break the chains of hatred and revenge that hold us captive and to defuse the mechanisms of human selfishness, pride, and arrogance, which are at the root of every warlike will that destroys,”…
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