Defensive war is allowed in Catholic teaching.
Self-defense is a cover.
Pope doesn’t have to make a pronouncement on it.
It’s as if George Soros were Pope.
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!]
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.