Pope Francis’ 2022 Christmas Message of Peace
Cornelius Hamelberg
Indeed a wide-ranging foreign policy statement of peace - world peace - from the Vatican.
“We know that every war causes hunger and exploits food as a weapon, hindering its distribution to people already suffering. On this day, let us learn from the Prince of Peace and, starting with those who hold political responsibilities, commit ourselves to making food solely an instrument of peace.” (Pope Francis ‘ 2022 Christmas Message… Full text of Pope Francis’ 2022 Christmas Message )
With regard to the above excerpt quoted from Pope Francis’ Christmas Message, I can’t help thinking of the many discussions and debates in this forum, with reference to the starvation suffered by the Igbo people, during the later stages of the Biafra War of Independence
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Message for 2022 also shows some courageous moral leadership and some spunk by for example criticising the immoral, inhumane, uncharitable, unchristian, and in my view, the very uncommonwealth idea of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda
So we have the Archbishop of Canterbury in sync with the Former Archbishop of York who is also an ardent critic of the UK’s deportation to Rwanda policy
Still orbiting within the English Language sphere, there is true modern monarchical leadership here too: King Charles III Christmas Message for 2022
The Eastern Orthodox Church Christmas will be celebrated on 7th January 2023, at which time, we will surely hear Christmas Messages from among others, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow of The Russian Orthodox Church ( 10% Ukrainains are Roman Catholic)
N.B. Jesus Christ is the invisible Head the Heavenly Head of the Church