Rome, 4 Oct. (LaPresse) – “Moving away from a mindset of domination is the first step we must take to stop the wars that threaten humanity,” says Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, in an interview with *La Repubblica* on the international situation – from Ukraine to Iran – just a few days after his mission to the UN General Assembly last week. “A conviction I have repeatedly emphasised, including in my address to the General Assembly a few days ago,” he stresses, “is that inequalities, exclusion, the denial of fundamental rights and the failure to recognise the other as a brother rather than a rival remain among the root causes of conflict; for this reason, it is necessary first and foremost to move away from a ‘logic of domination’.” Speaking on the war in Iran, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that “to date, the talks have not yet led to a lasting solution, and I am closely monitoring the indirect contacts, in the hope that they may open up a glimmer of hope. It is a situation that gives rise to great concern, above all because of the price paid by the civilian population; for this reason, the Holy See never tires of calling on all parties to choose the path of dialogue over that of force.”
Parolin: “To stop wars, we must move away from the logic of domination”
Rome, 4 Oct. (LaPresse) – “Moving away from a mindset of domination is the first step we must take to stop the wars that threaten humanity,” says Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, in an interview with *La Repubblica* on the international situation – from Ukraine to Iran – just a few days after his mission to the UN General Assembly last week. “A conviction I have repeatedly emphasised, including in my address to the General Assembly a few days ago,” he stresses, “is that inequalities, exclusion, the denial of fundamental rights and the failure to recognise the other as a brother rather than a rival remain among the root causes of conflict; for this reason, it is necessary first and foremost to move away from a ‘logic of domination’.” Speaking on the war in Iran, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that “to date, the talks have not yet led to a lasting solution, and I am closely monitoring the indirect contacts, in the hope that they may open up a glimmer of hope. It is a situation that gives rise to great concern, above all because of the price paid by the civilian population; for this reason, the Holy See never tires of calling on all parties to choose the path of dialogue over that of force.”