A second meeting between Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin will take place on 10 June in Rome on the occasion of the Russian President
’s visit to the Milan World Exposition — Expo 2015. There is no doubt that Putin’s trip to Italy has the primary objective of reaffirming the ...
... complicated dossiers of international policy, the dialogue between Moscow and St. Peter has necessarily to take place according to an
ad hoc
formula.
However, beyond the contingent crisis, there is a significant ideological bond that links the views of Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis I. In fact, both are fiery critics of the political, economic and moral process of globalization that crushes diversity and seeks to impose a standardized and homologating model for all peoples and States. Both do not sympathize with US unilateralism ...