Just a year ago
Poor, poor Turkey, upset that Pope Francis called the Turkish state’s massacre of a million and a half Armenians a century ago a “genocide” The Pope made the comments at a Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite at Peter’s Basilica, attended by the Armenian president and church leaders.
He said that humanity had lived through “three massive and unprecedented tragedies” in the last century. “The first, which is widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th Century’, struck your own Armenian people,” he said, in a form of words used by a declaration by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
He said that humanity had lived through “three massive and unprecedented tragedies” in the last century. “The first, which is widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th Century’, struck your own Armenian people,” he said, in a form of words used by a declaration by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
