Has the ‘Zuppi mission’ stalled?
Six months ago Pope Francis made the Italian cardinal his personal peace envoy, but how much progress has he made?
Six months ago, the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis had entrusted Italy’s Cardinal Matteo Zuppi with a delicate mission.
The May 20 announcement was thin on details. It said that the pope had given Zuppi — a veteran peacebuilder linked to the Community of Sant’Egidio — “the task of leading a mission, in agreement with the Secretariat of State, to hel…