No, he has much more power and influence than that. Even if the war is just, THIS reality is at the forefront of any decision:
And from a Christian perspective: it's not just about bodies, but about souls ...on every side, are on the line...
Posted on 04/11/2026 1:03:26 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Dear brothers and sisters,
Your prayer is an expression of that faith which, according to the words of Jesus, moves mountains (cf. Mt 17:20). Thank you for accepting this invitation to gather here at the tomb of Saint Peter and in so many other places around the world to pray for peace...
In the context of the 2003 Iraq war crisis, Saint John Paul II, a tireless advocate for peace, said with deep emotion:
“I belong to that generation that lived through World War II and, thanks be to God, survived it. I have the duty to say to all young people, to those who are younger than I, who have not had this experience: “No more war” as Paul VI said during his first visit to the United Nations. We must do everything possible. We know well that peace is not possible at any price. But we all know how great is this responsibility” I make his appeal my own this evening, relevant as it is today...
Prayer teaches us how to act. In prayer, our limited human possibilities are joined to the infinite possibilities of God. Thoughts, words and deeds then break the demonic cycle of evil and are placed at the service of the Kingdom of God...
(Excerpt) Read more at osvnews.com ...
I read the whole thing and found it quite shallow.
This is a “Just War” against irrational people who have stated over and over they wish to kill us. These people have committed evil terrorist acts and are close to having nuclear weapons if they don’t have them already.
Someone can advocate for peace all they want, but when someone is hell bent on killing you, you fight back.
He’s preaching to the wrong people.
He needs to be addressing the islamists.
” read the whole thing and found it quite shallow.
This is a “Just War” against irrational people who have stated over and over they wish to kill us. These people have committed evil terrorist acts and are close to having nuclear weapons if they don’t have them already.”
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Trump repeatedly said that we’d “obliterated” their nuclear program a few months ago. Was he lying?
Sort of drifted off into making the topic Trump didn’t you.
Why do Catholic have a habit of accusing President Trump of LYING.. You sound just like James Carville ... and Nancy Pewlouise.
Generalization?
Prevost is a usurper.
Nominal VII Catholics abound.
Real traditional Catholics are less than 1%.
Wide is the road that leadeth to destruction.
It is Written that James 3
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
No, he has much more power and influence than that. Even if the war is just, THIS reality is at the forefront of any decision:
And from a Christian perspective: it's not just about bodies, but about souls ...on every side, are on the line...
What does death of the physical body have to do with it.
Jesus never told anyone to quit being a soldier, in fact he held up a Centurion as an example of faith, a soldier above other normal soldiers in war.
“ The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Link: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116368825638596650
Trump doesn’t seem to think they “ are close to having nuclear weapons if they don’t have them already.”
I respect your desire to see souls saved by avoiding war. But this is a false choice you’re presenting — ‘save souls or protect innocent lives’ — is a dangerous distortion of Scripture, not a faithful application of it. Going to war to kill the enemy bent on killing your children is what men do. We do not hand the weak and the children over to evil on a silver platter of false piety. That is not surrender to God — it’s surrender to evil. And the blood of those children will cry out.
Jesus doesn’t care what uniform you have on at your death. Only that you knew Him. That means a “good soldier” can end up in the same place as the “bad guy” he just killed - on the same day - for all eternity.
So when weighing sending your people to their deaths, yes, a true Christian would take that into account: that you’re not just sending people to their deaths, but into eternity itself….
(And mostly young people at at that…)
It also means that the soldier and the enemy soldier can both go to heaven, God knows them both and will decide their place in the afterlife.
Each man has his own relation with God whether you kill him or not and that is something that soldiers have to remind themselves of, they are not the one deciding the man’s relationship with God and his afterlife, God is, and you should learn that yourself.
You have some twisted religious belief that wearing a uniform is anti-Christian.
Spoken like a soldier, they must keep themselves strong in faith for their difficult and dangerous, self sacrificing jobs.
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