Israel Presses Vatican on ‘Ambiguities,’ Parolin Calls for Coexistence

On a day in which Israel objected anew to efforts by Christian leaders to be even-handed in their approach to the new war with Hamas, the pope’s top diplomat said that until the deeper Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, there’s a perennial risk that such acts “will repeat themselves with ever great ferocity.” “The international community, with the instruments it has at its disposal, needs to try to lay the basis for a definitive solution to this problem,” said Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State.