After returning from Rome, where he participated in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Vinko Puljić, Archbishop of Vrhbosnia in peace, said at the Pastoral-Social Center of Caritas of the Vrhbosnia Archdiocese in Lug near Kiseljak that he asked the Pope to bless him and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“I asked him to bless me and our country,” the cardinal said.
He also said that he assumes that the Pope knows the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina through his work in the Dicastery.
As he says, the Pope left an impression on him of a calm and insightful person.
When asked if he had invited him to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cardinal Puljić replied that he did not have the authority to invite him to visit and that local bishops could do that.
Asked how the Pope views the situation in the world, the cardinal said that the Pope is, in his own way, a moral vertical not only for Catholics, but for the whole world, and that, more or less, everyone thinks so.
He added that the Holy Father delighted him because he has clear views.
“He speaks clearly, advocates Christian principles and has no complexes. That’s Catholic morality and that’s it. And I like that about him,” asserted Cardinal Puljić.
