Pope's Pacifism Cracks as Vatican OKs War

Church Militant ^ | 3/23/22 | Jules Gomes

[marshmallow]

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Pope Francis is making a sudden U-turn on the morality of war after declaring all wars to be unjust and upending the Church's doctrine on "just war".

"There is no such thing as a just war; they do not exist!" the pontiff told participants at the International Congress of the Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum Educationis on Friday.

On Tuesday, however, immediately after speaking to the pontiff on the telephone, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Italian parliamentarians that Francis had given him the green light to fight a just war.

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"Today I spoke with His Holiness Pope Francis, and he said many important things," Zelenskyy told Italy's Parliament via video link.

Francis told Zelenskyy: "I understand that you desire peace. I understand that you must defend yourselves; soldiers and civilians defend their country — they defend their homeland. Everyone is defending it."

"And I responded," Zelenskyy recounted, that "our people have become the army; [they became] the army when they saw the evil their enemy does — what devastation it has left."

The Holy See Press Office confirmed Francis' phone call with Zelenskyy, but Vatican News omitted the pontiff's affirmation of a defensive war in its report on the private conversation.

[Bayard]

Defensive war is allowed in Catholic teaching.

Self-defense is a cover.

Pope doesn’t have to make a pronouncement on it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s as if George Soros were Pope.

[Chicory]

I am focusing on the fact the Pope decided to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and that he asked the bishops to join him in this.

[I wish he had also asked all the Catholics in the world to go to Mass on that day (tomorrow, Friday 25 March, the Feast of the Annunciation), or to pray the rosary, but you can’t have everything!]

[tlozo]

Pope's Pacifism Cracks as Vatican OKs War

Pope supports defensive war, and Kirill supports offensive war.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Russia’s actions and blamed the conflict on the West.

Patriarch Kirill’s support for the invasion of a country where millions of people belong to his own church has led critics to conclude that Orthodox leadership has become little more than an arm of the state – and that this is the role it usually plays.