
At the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis remarks that the horrors of the Second World War are looming again today in Ukraine, and ahead of Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, on December 8, calls on the faithful to pray the Mother of God to comfort all those suffering the brutality of war.
During his weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Hall on Wednesday, Pope Francis recalled again the war raging in Ukraine. “History repeats itself today!”, he said as he addressed the Polish pilgrims present, referring to an event organized on Monday by the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin, in Poland to commemorate the anniversary of “Operation Reinhardt” (Einsatz Reinhardt), the extermination plan carried out by the Nazis against Polish Jews during the Second World War.