Pope Francis arrived in Hungary on Friday, April 28, for a three-day visit. The pontiff called for "recovering the European soul" in the face of "bellicose infantilism" against a backdrop of rising nationalism and war in Ukraine.

Viktor Orban is hostile to migrants because they threaten Christian Europe. The Holy Father has never ceased to encourage European countries to welcome refugees with kindness, a position that earned him in 2015 to be called an old senile man.