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The Papal seat

The Papal seat is where the Pope lives and governs all the catholics around the world, he gives his sermon from the balcony and visits countries around the world which is what is expected of his Holiness. What I can't understand is what gives him the right to indulge in politics, I am catholic and respect the fact that he was chosen by God or the cardinals to be our Pope, how can he by using his position interfere in another countries politics. What he said about the war between Ukraine and Russia was uncalled for, I personally think that he just can't tell the leader of the Ukraine to surrender in order to save lives, although saving lives may be true what about the people of Ukraine who have lost so many lives to the present day and don't want to surrender and become Russians, what if Putin doesn't stop fighting just because Ukraine surrenders, he then starts another war to get back all the ex Soviet countries. When the pope said that he really thinks that a dictator like Putin will just stop because the Pope says so I beg to differ, there was no way to stop Hitler but by force and the whole world coming together to achieve that goal and there's no way that the words from the Pope will stop Putin,I believe in the catholic church but sometimes I disagree with what the Pope says, to tell the people of the Ukraine to give up their country and identity and allow the aggressor to continue his ultimate goal was wrong. TheWest should do all they can to help Ukraine defeat Putin and then the war will end and the loss of life will stop, actions mean more than word's and why the Pope doesn't understand that I don't know but he should and leave the Ukrainians to do what they think is right and what they want, to be Ukrainian, that's all, is that too much for the Pope to understand. Maybe I have no right to speak out against the Pope but I can't help myself because I believe that he was wrong. 

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