[DoodleBob]

As hard as it may be to believe, these utterings aren't too far from those of prior Popes.

When the harm wrought by war is not comparable to that caused by tolerating injustice, we may be obliged to suffer injustice,” declared Pope Pius XII in his Address to the World Medical Association on October 19, 1953. In other words, Pius XII held that the human and natural damage wrought by a nuclear strike was out of proportion with any aggression whatsoever. Indeed, in response to the aforementioned nuclear bombings of Japanese civilians, Pius XII declared that “every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast inhabited areas is a crime against God and man.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are right, doodlebug. It is on absolutely the same page as every previous pope since 1945, and --- as you quoted --- #80 in Gaudium et Spes, which condemns abortion and infanticide in parallel, fully comparable terms.

And, dare I mention, God. He states about a dozen times in the OT that the shedding of innocent blood is an abomination. Abomination like sodomy. Abomination like child sacrifice. Like "the Abomination of Desolation."

See #15.