Papal envoy calls for ARMED RESPONSE to defend Christians from Genocide

Catholic Online ^ | August 11, 2014 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Explaining the Vatican’s surprising pro-US line on Iraq
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/08/11/explaining-vatican-surprising-pro-line-iraq/gPwU2wDzk94t2Orvr5gmsK/story.html?hootPostID=0ce093ed35741856f5d8349ffcc0e305

[don-o]

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And ping me to any other threads you find on this most interesting subject.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I agree with you, tomsbartoo, on the mission of the Church, so I'm not going to go mano-a-mano with you on that.

But I am getting aggravated by the two-step tango between dear Pope Francis and the headline-media, where His Holiness Tweets and it's thought to be a Motu Proprio, or Tweets Three Times and --- wow --- it's definition of doctrine. Next up, we get an off-the-cuff ex-cathedra to wit: "Violence solves nothing"?

Violence doesn't solve much. Honest to God, it doesn't. But it can stop a large Allah-Akhbar-shouting man with a big knife, approaching a downed child.

I feel kindly toward the Kurdish peshmerga, because they are laying down their lives to save their Chaldean Christian neighbors. May Jesus Christ strengthen them --- and reward them, I pray.

[vladimir998]

“Call me old fashioned, but I can remember a day when the singular mission of the Church was to lead all mankind to salvation.”

Primary mission certainly, but we have always fed the poor, cared for the sick and so on.