Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Just War!’

American Thinker.com ^ | April 5, 2022 | Raymond Ibrahim

[Kaslin]

Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again, trying to reverse nearly two millennia of Christian doctrine, by preaching total passivity -- even against violent aggression.

On March 18, 2022, Francis declared before an audience that “A war is always -- always! -- the defeat of humanity, always. We, the educated, who work in education, are defeated by this war, because on another side we are responsible.”

So far, all well and good, if only because such lofty but impotent words are expected. But then he went so far as to say that, “There is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!”

That is a remarkably dangerous claim, one that, if embraced -- as no doubt it is by millions of similar naïve thinkers -- can easily lead to their annihilation.

There is, indeed, such a thing as a just war -- the only rational way of responding to unjust wars -- and it is firmly grounded in Christian, especially Catholic, teaching, even if the head of the Catholic world argues otherwise.

In fact, from the very start, Christian theologians had concluded that “the so called charity texts of the New Testament that preached passivism and forgiveness, not retaliation, were firmly defined as applying to the beliefs and behavior of the private person [and not the state],” to quote historian Christopher Tyerman.

[Kaslin]

Huh? There is no such thing as a pope? For your information Jesus told Saint Peter: Upon your head I will built my church.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I grew up Protestant and have been Orthodox for over thirty years, but I have always admired and benefited from the devotional traditions of the Catholic Church. You have that, no matter who is temporarily in charge of the church. I know that I am an outsider so I don’t have to put up with the things actual Catholics do. But we have politics in Orthodoxy, too, and leaders playing power games. I have personally never given a fig about any particular church leader. Does my local church have a good priest? Is God worshipped reverently there in a community of spiritually-healthy people? That, for me, is the church.

[SaraJohnson]

He missed Revelation in the Bible.

[The Great RJ]

So going to war to oppose Hitler was wrong?

[TomGuy]

Maybe there are no just wars, but at any time, there are some 100 skirmishes between groups/states/countries going on. Some of the skirmishes have been going on for thousands of years.

That is the history of mankind. It isn’t going to go away. Greed, jealousy, envy, pride, and many other ‘emotions’ are usually the causes.

[rockrr]

“Doormat Christianity” - what a wonderfully accurate description! I’m adopting that one.

[Socon-Econ]

Unjust war? Tell that to all the murdered jews during WWII.

[gitmo]

Or the New Testament. There’s a big old ear in the last book.

[gitmo]

Or the New Testament. There’s a big old war in the last book.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

From Solomon, who I hold in a higher regard than Pope Francis:

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3

[Rockingham]

Early in formation as a priest and throughout Francis's career in his native Argentina, he was known to be weak and at times heterodox in his theology. As Pope, Francis is catastrophically unhinged with little regard for settled Catholic teachings when they impinge on his own views. Pope Francis now saying that there is no such thing as a just war also means that there can be no just cause for armed opposition to tyranny, oppression, and genocide, with the building of weapons for such purposes also morally reprehensible.

The moral idiocy of Francis the Leftist risks cratering the Papacy for a generation or more. The best that can be said is that at times Pope Francis seems genuinely aiming at a reform of the Vatican's notoriously corrupt and chaotic finances, even if he is too often inadequate in execution. And, unlike better predecessors in the papacy, Pope Francis has consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, thereby fulfilling a current request from the Ukrainian hierarchy and a too long unmet request from Mary herself in her apparition at Fatima in 1917. In that, Pope Francis seems not just politic but a believer cognizant that the purposes of Christianity, of Catholicism, and of the Papacy are ultimately not just of moral purpose but anchored in the supernatural.

[EastTexasTraveler]

“and it is firmly grounded in Christian, especially Catholic, teaching...”

I do not think the pope is a Christian, so he is not bound by christian teaching.

[DuncanWaring]

This guy is also opposed to capital punishment.

[DuncanWaring]

What was Peter?

[Lazamataz]

What about the war of God against the Devil?

According to this pope, that is the worst war of all.

[Rebelbase]

Wasn’t every war in Europe between the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire to around 1400 AD instigated or approved by the Pope?