Francis said in his September 15 inflight press conference from Astana to Rome referring to the Ukrainian war that the United Nations have been talking about peace for decades.
He observed that nonetheless, wars are going on in Ukraine, Syria, the Horn of Africa, Mozambique, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Myanmar and “now Azerbaijan and Armenia which had stopped for a while because Russia acted as a guarantor.”
Francis mentioned the demographic winter in the Western abortion and contraception regimes, pointing to empty Italian villages “with only twenty old ladies there.” His solution is a policy “where immigrants are included" - which is already creating empty villages in the countries were the immigrants come from.
Presupposing that his audience is stupid he alleged that immigration “raises the intellectual and congenial value of the West.” Another joke from the Argentinian immigrant who, after his arrival, raised the Vatican’s intellectual level: “Politics is a noble vocation.”
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