In a Spanish-language interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación, Pope Francis said that “the Vatican never rests” in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine. “I cannot tell you the details because they would cease to be diplomatic efforts. But the attempts will never stop.”
The Pontiff also told La Nación’s Joaquín Morales Solá that he had told another Argentine reporter, Gustavo Sylvestre, not to make public a handwritten letter in which he wrote that journalists who accuse him of being pro-Russian have fallen into “disinformation, slander, defamation, and coprophilia”—that is, taking pleasure in excrement.