Former papal envoy to Ukraine calls war ‘barbaric’ and a ‘slaughter’ | Crux

Former papal envoy to Ukraine calls war ‘barbaric’ and a ‘slaughter’ | Crux: Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican envoy in Ukraine and head of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, has called the war in Ukraine “barbaric,” and has defended Pope Francis’s attempt at a balanced engagement with both sides of the conflict.