Pope Francis’ efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine are gaining pace, the pontiff’s lead negotiator between Moscow and Kiev told Italian media on Sunday. While much has been made of the Vatican’s peace plan, it has not yet yielded any visible results.
A visit by the Pope to Budapest in April ended in a surprise announcement that he was working on a secret “mission” to bring a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Ukraine. The pontiff tasked Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi with leading the initiative the following month, but despite high-profile trips to Moscow, Kiev, Beijing, and Washington by the cardinal, the church is apparently no closer to its goal.
Zuppi, however, denies that the mission is stalled. “Something is moving,” he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday. “I have been to Kiev and Moscow. I’ve been to Washington and Beijing. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians
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