He wrote, “all people have a right to the culture they prefer, regardless of whether it is high or popular. The book is thus an argument for cultural democracy and an argument against the idea that only the cultural expert knows what is good for people and for society.”
“One would aim to arrive at this, that at least they talk. We’ll see what happens. It’s an offer of a place,” he said.“We have always said, repeated to the two sides that we are available to you, with all the discretion needed,” Parolin said.
The Vatican scored what was perhaps itsof the Francis pontificate when it facilitated the talks between the United States and Cuba in 2014 that resulted in the resumption of diplomatic relations.The Holy See has also often hosted far less secret diplomatic initiatives, such as when it brought together the rival leaders of South Sudan in 2019. The encounter was made famous by the image of Francis bending down to
to beg them to make peace.Perhaps the Holy See’s most
came during the peak of the Cuban missile crisis when, in the fall of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a secret deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba that were soon detected by U.S. spy planes.
As the Kennedy administration considered its response, with the threat of nuclear war looming, Pope John XXIII pleaded for peace in a public radio address, in a speech to Vatican ambassadors and also wrote privately to Kennedy and Khruschev, appealing to their love of their people to stand down.La Casa Blanca ha criticado duramente a cualquiera que haya expresado preocupación por el efecto bola de nieve de la deuda en el gobierno de Trump, a pesar de que hizo precisamente eso durante su primer mandato tras los recortes de impuestos de 2017.
Karoline Leavitt, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, dijo al inicio de su sesión informativa el jueves que quería “desmentir algunas afirmaciones falsas” sobre los recortes de impuestos de Trump.Leavitt puntualizó que la “afirmación flagrantemente errónea de que el “Proyecto de Ley Único, Grande y Hermoso” aumenta el déficit se basa en la Oficina de Presupuesto del Congreso y otros analistas que utilizan suposiciones deficientes y que históricamente han sido pésimos en sus proyecciones, tanto en gobiernos demócratas como republicanos”.
Pero el propio Trump ha sugerido que la falta de recortes de gastos suficientes para compensar sus reducciones de impuestos resultó de la necesidad de mantener unida a la coalición republicana en el Congreso.“Tenemos que conseguir muchos votos”, dijo Trump la semana pasada. “No podemos estar haciendo recortes”.