WelCom October 2022
Commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning that he was not bluffing about possibly using nuclear weapons, Pope Francis said that thinking of such an act was ‘madness’. At his general audience at St Peter’s Square, the Pope said Ukrainians were being subjected to savageness, monstrosities and torture, calling them a ‘noble’ people being martyred. He also praised Kazakhstan for giving up nuclear weapons after its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.