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Victor Gaetan is a senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register and contributes to Foreign Affairs magazine. He is the author of God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy and America's Armageddon.
Pope Francis greets Russian President Vladimir Putin during a private audience at the Vatican in this July 4, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Victor Gaetan
Some observers fail to realize that Vatican diplomacy must be tuned to the church’s centuries-old mission of loving our enemies.
Pope Francis and Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt's al-Azhar mosque and university, sign documents during an interreligious meeting at the Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 4, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Victor Gaetan
The best way to approach things is to find allies in the Islamic world who share a vision of tolerance and openness and who recognize the concept of the Abrahamic religions as having a common core of beliefs.