Pope evokes specter of nuclear war wiping out humanity
March 16, 2022
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday evoked the spectre of a nuclear war, where whoever is left of humanity would have to start all over again on "the day after", and appeared to ask God to stop the aggressor in Ukraine. The 85-year-old Francis dedicated his address at his weekly general audience to ageing and corruption in society, telling the Biblical story of the Great Flood that God used to punish a sinful and corrupt humanity and which only Noah and his family survived. "Our imagination appears increasingly concentrated on the representation of a final cat...