(SE): Konrad Cardinal Krajewski, the papal almoner, shared news that the Vatican was sending more humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Vatican News reported. On January 13, near Santa Sofia Church in Rome, seminarians and Ukrainian volunteers packed an aid truck from Slovakia using all the space available. It then headed the Zaporizhzhia area.
The cardinal has been active. On 19 December 2022, he visited Lviv arriving in a large van, “the biggest I could drive,” he said he brought some 40 electric generators and a large number of the thermal shirts procured through a collection by the Dicastery for the Service of Charity via a solidarity platform.
He said that collections have, so far, come up to more than €300,000 [$2.33 million], allowing for more purchases and shipments of generators and thermal shirts for Ukraine.
Cardinal Krajewski told Vatican News that “it’s a network of goodness with people helping their compatriots, wanting to help those who are suffering.”
After distributing humanitarian aid to various parts of the capital, Kyiv, he stopped to celebrate Christmas, bringing with him the closeness and blessing of Pope Francis. It marked a wartime Christmas of frigid cold and gloom due to electricity rationing, mitigated by the glow running generators.
“I would say the mission is accomplished,” Cardinal Krajewski said upon his return to the Vatican a week later. However, it is an ongoing mission that continues to be renewed.
