‘a world of wars’
THERE was a time, in the lives of many of us, in which we thought that we had entered an era of peace.
A time after the Berlin Wall was finally reduced to rubble when co- operation would substitute the fractures of the Cold War.
This is why – when Pope Francis, a few years ago, warned that we were close to a “Third World War in pieces”, I dismissed the thought as exaggerated.
But Francis might have spoken with sad foresight – as he often does – when he coined that expression. Because, as we look in anguish at the destruction of
