Posted on 03/23/2022 6:48:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has recognized the legitimacy of recourse to arms to repel an unjust aggressor such as in the case of Ukraine in an apparent contradiction of Pope Francis’ rejection of Catholic “just war” doctrine.
“The use of weapons is never something desirable, because it always carries a very high risk of taking the life of people or causing serious injury and terrible material damage,” Cardinal Parolin told the Spanish Catholic weekly Vida Nueva when asked whether European nations should be sending weapons to Ukraine.
“Nonetheless, the right to defend one’s life, one’s people and one’s country sometimes also involves the sad recourse to arms,” the cardinal recognized. “At the same time both sides must refrain from the use of prohibited weapons and fully respect international humanitarian law to protect civilians and non-combatants.”
“On the other hand, although military aid to Ukraine may be understandable, the search for a negotiated solution, which silences weapons and prevents a nuclear escalation, remains a priority,” Parolin added.
On Friday, Pope Francis ruled out the possibility of “just wars,” saying they do not exist.
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Aren’t they mostly Eastern Orthodox in Ukraine?
Gee! That’s swell. Glad he said it was alright. Does he say that Putin can invade them?
Amazing how the interests of Globalism trump Catholic doctrine/dogma.
The man who is called Pope is nothing but a puppet of Globalism.
Yes, they are. Why do they need the Vatican’s permission?
Exactly.
Supposedly the Russian church patriarch is pro-Russia in this conflict, but it’s my understanding that he doesn’t have a role anything like a Pope, that the church leadership is essentially country-by-country.
go back to sleep...
As one Russian leader once said: “How many divisions does the pope have?”
About 8% are Eastern or Greek Catholics, in union with Rome. There is a very small number of Latin Catholics.
The Pope seemed to like Nazi Germany back in the day. Just saying.
Oh, sure.
That would be why Rome's chief rabbi converted to Catholicism after the war.
https://www.rabbimichaelsamuel.com/pope-pius-xii-and-the-chief-rabbi-of-rome/
Selective war mongers just what we needed 🤪
stalin told a pope who disagreed with him.
..” How many battalions does the Pope have?”
it was Stalin
Yes it was.
my father was from Georgia...
tblisi...stalin’s hometown
“Vatican Chief Okays Ukraine’s Use of Arms to Repel Unjust Aggressor”
Now THAT is mighty white of him.
Total bulls—t story. The libel that Pius XII was pro-Nazi was part of a communist propaganda campaign. No one during WW2 thought that Pius XII was pro-Nazi. At the time, he was universally praised for his work against the Nazis, including by Jewish organization and the mainstream liberal media. The slander against first surfaced 18 years after the war, in 1963, in a Communist-authored play called The Deputy.
>> On Friday, Pope Francis ruled out the possibility of “just wars,” saying they do not exist.
The pope is actually correct on this. The just war *theory* describes when it is all right to engage in war and revolves around issues of national defense and proportionality.
In this way, no war is just, in and of itself. Only one side in a war —if either— can be said to have entered justly: the war itself is never just.
Thus we can say that one nation in a war aggressed against the other, which is not just. The other side *justly* defends itself against the unjust actions of the other.
The Pope should read St. Thomas Acquinas.
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