"Peace, please, peace... War is always a defeat, everyone loses. Everyone doesn't, there is one group that gains so much: the makers of weapons. These make good money, over the death of others". The voice is faint but the Pope's complaint about the horror being wrought by war in the Holy Land and Ukraine is strong. At the end of the general audience, held in the Paul VI Hall and not in St. Peter's Square given the drop in temperature, Francis took the floor yesterday after both the catechesis and the greetings in the various languages had been read throughout the audience by Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli, an official of the Secretariat of State. “This,” the Pontiff himself explained at the beginning of the audience, “was because of difficulty in speaking due to the inflammation in his lungs from which he is recovering and because of which on Tuesday he had to cancel, at the request of his doctors, his planned trip from December 1-3 to Dubai for Cop28.
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