Cardinal Parolin on war in Ukraine: “A people cannot be denied the right to defend itself”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State, recently returned from the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He affirmed Ukraine's right to self-defense and emphasized the importance of bringing hostilities to an end.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”