Pope John Paul II may ask to personally address UN Security Council to stop Iraq war

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | March 3, 2003

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The pope wants to go in front of UNO if its message with Bush does not stop the war

Jean Paul II will ask to address personally to the Security Council of the United Nations if its message with the American president George W Bush does not convince it to give up a war against Iraq, learned Monday the AFP from diplomatic source vaticane.L' possibility of a direct address of the pope in the United Nations was evoked during the maintenance of the pope with the secretary-general of UNO, Kofi Annan, there are two weeks in the Vatican, one added of the same source.Le cardinal Pio Laghi left Rome Monday morning for Washington carrying a message of peace as it must give to the American president. The cardinal, old apostolic nuncio (ambassador) in Washington and friend of the Bush family, hopes to be received mercredi.Une delegation of American religious leaders forwarded last week to Jean Paul II a letter wishing that the head of the catholic Church go to ONU."Il is allocated only to the pope himself to make such a decision ", commented on Sunday on a chain of television the archbishop Renato Martino, old observant of the Holy See at the United Nations and current president of the pontifical Council for justice and the peace, which had been charged to transmit to the missive.Si the pope, had tired and old of almost 82 years, had he could benefit from it to go to request in Ground Zero, affirms one diplomatic source vaticane.Ce gesture would be very appreciated by all the Americans, adds one. He had been considered last August at the time of the voyage of the pope in Canada for the world Days of Jeunesse.Dans diplomatic circles of the Holy See, one estimates that the parallel actions and concommitantes of the pope on the two protagonists of the crisis, Iraq and the United States, represent a significant chance so that a war is evité.Le Iraqi president Saddam Hussein should take account of the risk to be relatively insulated in the Arab world if he made the deaf person ear with a call to order of the Arab League, even observes one of the same source.De, underlines one, president Bush, of methodist confession, should not receive from one who asked nearly a billion and half of Christians of the whole world to fast for peace Wednesday. This fast is also preached by the World Council of Churches of Geneva where Protestant Eglises and orthodoxes.En sit reiterating Sunday its call to all the Christians, the pope confirmed his determination with all to try for the paix."Sans to go in front of the difficulties, it is necessary to look for and traverse all the possible ways to avoid the war, which always brings with it serious mournings and consequences for everyone ", he launched to the thousands of brought together pilgrims Saint-Pierre place under the eye of the cameras of télévision.Le cardinal Laghi will make any possible sound to convince president Bush that a unilateral attack except UNO against Iraq is a "crime against peace", Foreign Minister of the pope, Mgr Jean Louis Tauran.

[Robert Drobot]

Your comment in post #233 is unambiguous. It is clear you are unable to subscribe to a loyalty oath like the Pledge of Allegiance. Perhaps the political climate of France or China is more suited to you. But then neither of them would allow you to slur their leadership.

[arete]

It is clear you are unable to subscribe to a loyalty oath like the Pledge of Allegiance

If it means mindlessly following the dictates of a corrupted ruling class whose agenda is expanding an ever growing intrusive government, and giving up personal freedoms to an oppressive police state, I won't be taking that pledge.

Richard W.

[Robert Drobot]

So when are you leaving?

[mrb1960]

I see noting anti-catholic in his statement, the popes protection of Hitler is well documented.

[BlessedBeGod]

I suggest you look for the links to the contrary in the rest of the thread. It appears you're just as ignorant as he is.

[arete]

So when are you leaving?

Leave? Just as my country is about to be taken over completely by fascist thugs and turned into a police state? I'm staying to fight for a return to the original Consitiution and to put the people back in charge. May skip down to Costa Rica for a few days but that's about it.

Richard W.

[mrb1960]

I don't have to, most information put out now is just plain wrong. I'm sadden that you can't see the truth, but if you look up authors like Avro Manhattan, David Hunt, John Ankerberg, they will tell the truth without reservation.

And I don't take to someone calling me "ignorant" just because I disagree with your point of view. Name calling just shows how immature you really are.