Pope Francis meets U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley
Rome Newsroom, Aug 21, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis had a private audience on Monday at the Vatican with U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Aug. 21 meeting took place in the pope’s study in the Apostolic Palace. Neither the Vatican nor the U.S. Department of Defense provided information about the audience.
Milley, a Catholic, is the U.S.’s highest-ranking military officer and the principal military adviser to the president, secretary of defense, and National Security Council.
Prior to becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2019, Milley was chief of staff of the U.S. Army.
At the Vatican meeting, Milley and Pope Francis exchanged gifts. Pope Francis blessed rosaries brought by the general and gave him a sculpture with the phrase, in Italian, “Peace is a fragile flower.”
Milley’s wife of 38 years, Hollyanne Haas, was part of the general’s delegation, as was U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Joe Donnelly.
As the top U.S. general, Milley has commented on the Russia-Ukraine War. According to Reuters, in July he said Ukraine’s counteroffensive was “far from a failure. I think that it’s way too early to make that kind of call.”
Milley told journalists: “I think there’s a lot of fighting left to go and I’ll stay with what we said before: This is going to be long. It’s going be hard. It’s going to be bloody.”
On Aug. 17, the general spoke via telephone with the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
According to a statement from a Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson, the two “discussed the unprovoked and ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and exchanged perspectives and assessments. The chairman [Milley] reaffirmed unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The meeting between Pope Francis and Milley took place as the Vatican has embarked on a peace-building mission in Ukraine, headed by Italian Cardinal Mario Zuppi.
Zuppi, who has traveled to both Kyiv and Moscow, also visited Washington, D.C., for a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in mid-July.
The Biden administration announced earlier this summer it was sending an additional $800 million in weapons to aid Ukraine’s counteroffensive — including morally problematic “cluster bombs” that have been banned by most countries, including the Holy See.
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255143/pope-francis-meets-us-joint-chiefs-of-staff-chairman-gen-mark-milley
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There is no longer anything holy about the Holy See. Francis and Milley are waging a war on humanity doing the work of their master to earn a high rank in hell to where they should return.
Gen. Mark Milley is leading the troops of Pharao which are rushing into the parted Red Sea. We know the rest of the story. Why have we come to this situation when a ‘Catholic’ is bowing to Mammon? Remember that God alternatively “hardened & softened” the heart of Pharao, and the same thing is happening again. God has allowed the captivity in Egypt again, and this captivity occur over six decades ago, when God permitted a dynasty of antipopes, who are the new pharaos of modern time. Gen. Mark Milley is among those murmurers of Israel who prefer “the fresh cucumbers available while remaining a captive to Egypt”. This is terrible punishment against the new Israel represented by the Roman Catholic Church under the yoke of antipopes. God has blinded the ‘Catholics’ because the ‘Catholics’ in the likes of Gen. Mark Milley deliberately ignore the real situation of the Catholic world of to-day, which is an authentic remnant RCC under the yoke of a minuscule authentic hierarchy which has abided to the Fatima demands. Gen. Mark Milley decided that it is more convenient to ignore that the legitimate Pope Gregory XVIII, and a handful of unionist bishops did the Consecration of Russia (to the Immaculate Heart of Mary) back on May 13, 1991. Gen. Mark Milley is blinded to the fact that Russia has become Holy Russia again, and that God is guiding Holy Russia with a strong hand. The discutions about cluster bombs with Antipope Francis (the Reprobate) is just for show for a false compassion ment to keep the appearances of sanctity. The world and CNA staff is blinded to those facts, and this is perhaps God’s just punishment.