Posted on 08/15/2014 8:15:57 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Bill Donohue comments on the Vatican's response to the Islamic State terrorists:
The Catholic Church's just-war doctrine allows for a military response to grave conflicts, provided that several criteria are operative. The Vatican has made it clear that the mass murder being committed by Islamic State terrorists meets that standard.
No one has been more pointed than Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations. He said this week that "there might be occasions in the life and in the relations between states when dialogue, negotiations, fail and large numbers of people find themselves at risk: at risk of genocide, at risk of having their fundamental, their basic rights violated."
"In this case," Tomasi said, "when every other means has been attempted, article 42 of the Charter of the United Nations becomes possible justification for not only imposing sanctions of economic nature on the state or the group or the region that violates the basic human rights of people, but also to use force. All the force that is necessary to stop this evil and this tragedy."
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue also released a statement calling on "religious leaders, especially Muslims," to condemn the genocide. It cited "The execrable practice of beheading, crucifixion, and hanging of corpses in public places"; "The choice imposed on Christians and Yezidis between conversion to Islam, payment of tribute or exodus"; "The imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation" [female genital mutilation]; "The forced occupation or desecration of churches and monasteries"; and "The destruction of places of worship and Christian and Muslim burial places." It also made it plain that "No cause can justify such barbarity and certainly not a religion."
Kudos to the Vatican. It is speaking with greater clarity and urgency than our golf-vacationing president.
He sees more clarity than I do. The Pope himself keeps calling for calm and peace. All the other noise from the Vatican can be interpreted anyway anyone wants.
Romans:
It is good to fear the sword of the state, for it has it’s purpose.
Will they use the comfy cushion?
IB4TPWMA
A.D. 1095 comes to mind.
This will mean nothing to the emperor, he’s already said he fixed it
i did’”t know they had to ‘ok’ anything
Mike
“Onward, Christian soldiers”
oops “didn’t”
From what I hear the Vatican has plenty of money to fund a crusade.
Uncle Joe asks “ How many divisions does this Pope of Rome have?”
He actually has had military power at times hasn’t he?
Middle ages?
And using thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.........
So the crusades are on? Where does one sign up?
So finally the Vatican and Pope Francis admit that war is never the answer... except when it is.
The Church has never taught that war is never the answer.
My point exactly. But the hierarchy today almost universally teaches exactly that.
I see what you’re saying. This is similar to the teaching on the death penalty. Traditionally allowed, but nowadays the hierarchy teaches as if it is never allowed.
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