Posted on 11/26/2019 6:27:09 PM PST by ebb tide
"The use of nuclear weapons is immoral, which is why it must be added to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Not only their use, but also possessing them: because an accident or the madness of some government leader, one person’s madness can destroy humanity.”
In addition to repeating this strong message pronounced at Hiroshima, Pope Francis responded to many questions posed to him by the journalists during the flight bringing them back to Rome from Japan.
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So when does the Vatican get rid of all their weapons?
I am sure the Iranians and others muslimes will take the pope’s nuclear catechism real seriously.
Is he going to talk to North Korea?
So when can we expect Pope Marxist to preach this in Beijing and Islamabad and demand action?
I should be good. No one I know including myself has a nuke in my backyard, pocket, or garage. Just how does Francis think this mortal sin works?
When the harm wrought by war is not comparable to that caused by tolerating injustice, we may be obliged to suffer injustice,” declared Pope Pius XII in his Address to the World Medical Association on October 19, 1953. In other words, Pius XII held that the human and natural damage wrought by a nuclear strike was out of proportion with any aggression whatsoever. Indeed, in response to the aforementioned nuclear bombings of Japanese civilians, Pius XII declared that “every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast inhabited areas is a crime against God and man.”
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives and years of warfare, by paralyzing Japanese forces, setting German forces back on their heels by incapacitating their major ally and by buying time for America to manufacture the weaponry and recruit the men and women needed to save Europe and China and the South Seas from wholesale slaughter, Bolshivik style. Incidentally, it also brought a lot of Japanese to the Church, replacing emperor worship and upending the caste system. Allowing Japan, with America’s helping hand, to fast-track into the industrial age.
That said, the weapons being developed today are about 100 times more powerful. But in N Korea where emperor worship still exists, or Iran where mullah worship still exists, or China where party worship is the name of the game, catechism isn’t exactly relative. So who is the Pope preaching to exactly? Surely he’s not suggesting the nations that keep world peace disarm so the nations that don’t, destroy that peace? Or will we forever associate nuclear with Japan as if they were innocent victims of injustice?
Not having a pope is the new Catholic. Nobody needs this commie puke. I am Catholic and I’m proud. And I have no pope. Our faith is based in Christ and it will survive this latest antichrist.
None of us are ever going into the confessional to say that we feel guilty about owning nuclear weapons. The only personal sin I can think of that the Pope has ever mentioned being concerned about was gossip. He really doesn’t care about the next life, about salvation of souls, much.
That might include microphones anywhere within a 10-foot radius of the man formerly known as Jorge Bergoglio.
This all amounts to nothing until the Pope persuades India and Pakistan to put their nuclear toys away. And as far as other wannabe nuclear powers, rogue regimes and terrorists who would like to acquire nukes, I don’t see them being receptive to the “why can’t we all just get along” approach, either. The US is not the problem on this. We haven’t used nukes on anybody since wwII. That’s a long track record of restraint.
Don't know if it would or should apply to tactical or theatre nukes.
I, myself, would argue that strategic nuclear weapons should be banned, and that it is "rave matter" --- a serious sin --- to cooperate in the planning or carrying out target=city military "acts directed at whole cities or extensive geographical areas, together with their population" ---to use the language of Gaudium et Spes 80.
Pretty straightforward. Smash military targets, smash them flat. But don't go out there to inflict aerial Auschwitz on the civilian population.
That's what I said to my firstborn, 30-year Captain Ben, USMC, who just two days ago got his "own" Harrier Jump Jet, a close-combat attack aircraft with his name painted on it.
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Can Catholics boycott donating any money to drive this turd from office?
Morally, it = megabortion.
But what goes round, comes round. We've already Auschwitzed 60 million of our own children, with pretty explicit intentionality: moms ('n' dads, usually) wanted them dead.
"The fruit of abortion is nuclear war." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
And, dare I mention, God. He states about a dozen times in the OT that the shedding of innocent blood is an abomination. Abomination like sodomy. Abomination like child sacrifice. Like "the Abomination of Desolation."
See #15.
I very much doubt that there is anyone who has their own nuclear weapon
I lost mine in a boating accident.
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