The Pope asks that reform of the United Nations (UN) be considered while calling for universal peace in the new book that will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his pontificate and which will be released on Tuesday.
According to an extract from the new book read by the Italian daily ‘La Stampa’, Pope Francis called on nations and peoples to work together and build a better world where peace reigns.
The Pope reflects on the role of the UN and its founding charter and stresses that the world today is not the same as the one humanity inhabited during the two world wars of the 20th century.
“Today’s world is no longer the same, and that is why it is necessary to rethink these institutions so that they can respond to this new reality and be the fruit of the widest possible consensus”, writes the Pope.
The book, in which journalist Hernán Reyes Alcaide collaborates, is entitled “I pray to you in the name of God” and hits newsstands six months before the tenth anniversary of Francis’ pontificate, which will be celebrated on March 13, 2023. Spain, the book will be published in November by the publishing house ‘Mensajero’.
In the work, the Pontiff also appeals for an unequivocal condemnation of war after having banished the concept of a just war. In this way, he recalls that the Church rejects the idea that war conflicts can solve problems between nations, considering that wars are “always a defeat for humanity”.
In the publication, Francis admits that the war in Ukraine has dramatically revealed the horrors that result from the conflict and insists that there is “a third world war to be fought little by little”, and that it threatens to expand into a full-scale global conflict. s
He also considers that the war in Ukraine risks triggering nuclear destruction.
“Possessing nuclear weapons is immoral”, he reiterates, stating that these weapons undermine the paths of dialogue and jeopardize the survival of humanity on Earth.
In a reflection on the dissemination of weapons, the Pope once again condemns the commercialization of these as one of the “worst moral scandals of the present time”.
Therefore, it reiterates that dialogue and hope are the only possible ways to resolve conflicts and invites all countries to engage in “dialogue, negotiations, listening, creative diplomacy and far-sighted politics that can build for a system that is not based on in the power of arms or in deterrence”.
