(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 05.21.2024).
- The American network CBS aired an interview with Pope Francis on the evening of Monday, May 20th. In this new interview, CBS Evening News anchor and chief editor Norah O’Donnell questions the Pope about various current topics of interest. We provide a transcript of the interview: *** Question: During World Children’s Day, the U.
N. says over a million people will be facing famine in Gaza, many of them children. Pope Francis : Not just in Gaza.
Think of Ukraine. Many kids from Ukraine come here. You know something? That those children don’t know how to smile? I’ll say something to them (mimics smile).
.. they have forgotten how to smile.
And that is very painful. Question: Do you have a message for Vladimir Putin when it comes to Ukraine? Pope Francis : Please, warring countries, all of them, stop. Stop the war.
You must find a way of negotiating for peace. Strive for peace. A negotiated peace is always better than an endless war.
Question: What’s happening– in Israel and Gaza, has caused so much division, so much pain around the world. I don’t know if you’ve seen in the United States, big protests on college campuses and growing antisemitism. What would you say about how to change that? Pope Francis: All ideology is bad, and antisemitism is an ideology, and it is bad.
Any «anti» is always bad. You can criticize one government or another, the government of Israel, the Palestinian government. You can criticize all you wa.
