{"id":1390637,"date":"2022-03-20T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390637"},"modified":"2022-03-20T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:45:01","slug":"vatican-chief-okays-ukraines-use-of-arms-to-repel-unjust-aggressor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-chief-okays-ukraines-use-of-arms-to-repel-unjust-aggressor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Chief Okays Ukraine\u2019s Use of Arms to Repel Unjust Aggressor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-chief-okays-ukraines-use-of-arms-to-repel-unjust-aggressor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 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\u2019 rejection of Catholic \u201cjust war\u201d doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Cardinal Parolin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.askanews.it\/esteri\/2022\/03\/18\/ucraina-parolin-difesa-popolo-comporta-triste-ricorso-a-armi-pn_20220318_00047\/\">told<\/a> the Spanish Catholic weekly <em>Vida Nueva<\/em> when asked whether European nations should be sending weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless, the right to defend one\u2019s life, one\u2019s people and one\u2019s country sometimes also involves the sad recourse to arms,\u201d the cardinal recognized. \u201cAt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 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,\u201d Parolin added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Pope Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2022\/03\/19\/pope-francis-no-such-thing-just-war\/\">ruled<\/a> out the possibility of \u201cjust wars,\u201d saying they do not exist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DwbP4bOa47\">https:\/\/t.co\/DwbP4bOa47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1505566937866199044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!\u201d Francis told participants in an international conference gathered in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the pontiff similarly told Moscow Patriarch Kirill that wars are always unjust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one time there was talk in our Churches of holy war or just war,\u201d Francis said. \u201cToday we cannot speak like that. The Christian awareness of the importance of peace has developed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWars are always unjust,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause those who pay are the people of God. Our hearts cannot fail to weep in front of the children, the women killed, all the victims of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20249666\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238724167.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine\u2019s Lugansk region on February 24, 2022.(ANATOLII STEPANOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In its explanation of \u201cjust war doctrine,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>, a compendium of Catholic belief, lays out a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scborromeo.org\/ccc\/para\/2309.htm\">conditions<\/a> necessary to justify the use of military force, summing up the teachings proposed by Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas.<\/p>\n<p>It states that \u201cthe damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}