"No political system" can, "in the name of ideology, deny the rights of the human person and his freedom and dignity." So spoke the Pope at the end of yesterday’s Angelus greeting thousands of Ukrainian pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s square to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor the "great famine" that from the years 1932-1933 caused millions of deaths in Ukraine and other regions of the soviet Union during the communist regime. "In expressing the lively hope that no political system can ever again, in the name of ideology, deny the rights of the human person and his freedom and dignity, I assure my prayers for all the innocent victims of that immense tragedy, and I invoke the Holy Mother of God, that she help the nations to proceed along the path of reconciliation, and to construct the present and the future in mutual respect and in the sincere search for hope," concluded Benedict XVI. ” ” ” “
