“I have been saying this for a long time: we are living through the third world war in pieces. The one in Ukraine moves us more, because it is nearby, and in Syria there has been a terrible war for 13 years. Yemen, as much as Myanmar, everywhere in Africa, the world is a state of war. It hurts so much, it hurts so much,” said Pope Francis at the beginning of an exclusive interview with the Italian channel Canale 5, entitled “A Christmas I would like to like,” Radar quoted.

In the continuation of the interview, the Pontiff recalled the ceremony he attended in Redipulia in 2014 on the occasion of the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. “In 2014, when I was in Redipulia, I cried. I cried! It was on the occasion of the centenary of the war. I couldn’t believe the ages of the people who died.” “War destroys, always destroys,” the Pope continued, speaking of the “madness” of war.

“Then every year on the 2nd of November I go to the cemetery. One year I went to the cemetery in Anzio, where the American soldiers are buried. I saw the age of the boys and cried. But how can this happen? How can lives be destroyed at this age? War is like mysticism destruction.” “When commemoration of the landing in Normandy took place, I saw how the heads of governments mentioned the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazism, fascism.

But there, on the seashore, 30,000 young people remained.” “I don’t understand, war destroys. Sometimes I think about mothers whose postman rings the doorbell: “Ma’am, you have a letter. Madam, we are honored to tell you that you are the mother of a hero.” Yes, the mother has only that letter from her son. War is madness, it always destroys,” added Pope Francis. “And now you say that it is cruelty, because one aggression leads to another aggression, and then more and more.

It continues like this. It destroys like a game. Then hunger and cold, war can bring so much, it destroys.”

Continuing the interview, Pope Bergoglio spoke about the arms trade: “The arms industry, an industry that, instead of contributing to humanity, does things to destroy it. We are crazy.” But war also means rising energy prices, closing businesses, families in trouble, “these are the consequences of war, aren’t they? Prices fly, objectivity is lost. You cannot change anything because everything is connected. Everything is connected.” “, – said Pope Francis, quoted by Rai News.