The Vatican’s Ukraine peace mission is not over

Many have concluded that the Vatican’s peace mission failed, is it actually advancing after all?

One of the biggest Catholic stories of 2023 was the Vatican’s effort to help bring about the end of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Vatican peace envoy Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, pictured in 2015. Francesco Pierantoni via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).

In the most high-profile initiative, Pope Francis’ envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi visited what the Vatican sees as the wa…