Overview
- During an audience at the Vatican, he accepted credentials from 13 ambassadors representing Uzbekistan, Moldova, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Liberia, Thailand, Lesotho, South Africa, Fiji, Micronesia, Latvia and Finland.
- He vowed the Church would not stand by in the face of grave disparities, injustices and fundamental human rights violations in a fractured world.
- He described peace as an active, demanding gift and renewed his call for an “unarmed and disarming peace,” urging a renunciation of pride and weaponized words.
- He said global instability falls hardest on the poor and those made “invisible” by rapid economic and technological change, echoing themes from his exhortation Dilexi Te.
- He asked the diplomats to help revive multilateral cooperation, with the Secretariat of State supporting efforts to lay foundations for a more just, fraternal and peaceful order.