Pope Francis -- Into an ice age: 1. “fuels an already out of control global antisemitism” 2. “Inappropriate comments while antisemitism runs rampant in Europe” and around the world
Throughout the war in Gaza, said Saint Joseph’s University professor Philip Cunningham, Francis has been struck by its human toll There is also a broader trend within the Catholic Church that the Pope might be reflecting, Cunningham posited
The West’s approach to the rules of war is firmly rooted in Catholic Just War Theory, which affirms the possibility of nations pursuing and winning conflicts in an ethical fashion
The understanding that war can be justified and necessary is changing in the Catholic community
Cunningham said,
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”There is a great suspicion about whether the conditions for a just war could ever actually exist”
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“particularly in an era when you’ve got weapons of mass destruction that can wipe out whole populations
There’s been a tendency in the Catholic community to be very suspicious of justifying war at all”
