Cardinal Peter Turkson, the head of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace, has called for a “broad and deeply felt” debate on
the question of just war theory and said a papal encyclical on the issue
was possible. He also said that proposals to drop the concept of just
war were “legitimate”.
Cardinal Turkson spoke to the Sunday Times
after a conference sponsored by Pax Christi International, the Catholic
peace movement, and the Vatican’s justice and peace office, earlier
this month. At the conclusion of the conference participants called for
the Catholic Church to renounce its just war doctrine and for Pope Francis to write an encyclical on nonviolence and “just peace.”
In a closing statement, attendees at the conference said that too
often the doctrine had been used to justify and endorse military action
rather than prevent it.
Cardinal Turkson said he hoped “the debate on these issues, now as pressing as ever, will continue.”
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I look forward to the day when the Muzzies storm the Vatican and no army comes to its aid, not even the Swiss Guard. After all, all wars are unjust, even those of self-defense.
ReplyDeleteFrankie will be atop the parapets waving his yellow and white papal flag. Yellow to signify cowardice and white to signify total surrender to Allah. I can't wait!
It's a good thing the RCC requires, at least on paper, its clergy to be celibate because it's obvious these "men" have no testicles.
If the Faith is an independent, disembodied truth that exists even if there are no humans alive to practice it, then yes, Just War is archaic.
ReplyDeleteIf the Faith requires cultural expression in the singing of hymns, people engaged in liturgy and constructing architecture, then the continued failure of the hierarchs to craft a rational doctrine of self-defense is proof of their nihilism.
+Francis is just laying the groundwork for Europeans to acquiesce in their own annihilation and the Vatican to exist, if at all, as a Christian ghetto surrounded by Muslims supported by remittances from the Americas; a shepherd who despises his flock.