Posted on 01/11/2023 6:01:55 PM PST by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, Jan 9, 2023 / 06:28 am The global community is engaged in a “third world war” marked by heightened fear, conflict, and risk of nuclear violence, but a recommitment to “truth, justice, solidarity, and freedom” can provide a pathway to peace, Pope Francis told international diplomats Monday.
Citing the ongoing war in Ukraine but also drawing on conflicts in places such as Syria, West Africa, Ethiopia, Israel, Myanmar, and the Korean Peninsula, the Holy Father said this global struggle is being “fought piecemeal” but is nonetheless interconnected.
“Today the third world war is taking place in a globalized world where conflicts involve only certain areas of the planet direct, but in fact involve them all,” said Pope Francis, speaking in the Vatican's apostolic palace.
The pope made these remarks as part of his annual address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Pope Francis characterized this speech as “a call for peace in a world that is witnessing heightened divisions and war.”
As part of this heightening of tensions, the pope warned about the increased threat of nuclear warfare, drawing particular concern to the stall in negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal. He told the gathered diplomats that the possession of nuclear weapons is “immoral” and called for an end to a mentality that pursues conflict deterrence through the development of ever-more lethal means of warfare.
“There is a need to change this way of thinking and move toward an integral disarmament, since no peace is possible when instruments of death are proliferating,” the pope said.
In proposing a path toward global peace, the Holy Father drew heavily from Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth”), the papal encyclical promulgated by St. John XXIII in 1962. Pope Francis said the conditions that prompted the “good pope” to......
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Falsity, Lack of Justice, and the Stalinist Way. -Pope Marx
“There is a need to change this way of thinking and move toward an integral disarmament, since no peace is possible when instruments of death are proliferating,” the pope said.
The benevolent interpretation of this is that the man has no knowledge of history and no ability to apply common sense.
The cynical interpretation is that he doesn’t believe a word of this nonsense but it suits the interests of his puppeteers (the ChiComs? Soros?) to promote the unilateral disarmament of the West.
The Communist saying we need freedom. That’s just too rich.
Why do I think after Francis comes Peter the Roman (Peter II)?
Christ
“While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”
No truth, no justice, solidarity only with his fellow Communists, and freedom for illegal alien lawbreakers.
There is no Third World War and taking all the USA’a money and giving it to “poor “ countries won’t solve the world ‘s problems.
Time for him to resign.
Someone asked, “why do I think that after Francis comes Petrus Romanus?”
Umm, because you expect the last pope to call himself Petrus Romanus and not, say, Francis?
Truth Justice and the American Way.
“Solidarity” is the buzz-word…
what is he proposing? having a muslim feet and ck washing festival??
ANTI-pope Francis.
That is four topics of which the Pope has little in common with.
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