Editor’s Note: Mark Tooley wrote the following op-ed, reposted here in part, for The Detroit News. Read it in its entirety here.
Will the Catholic Church reject all use of military force?
A Vatican co-sponsored conference on non-violence and peace has urged a “global conversation on nonviolence” while advocating that the Church “no longer use or teach ‘just war theory’” and continue to advocate “for the abolition of war and nuclear weapons.”
Last week’s event in Rome was hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and by a longtime leftist Catholic advocacy group, Pax Christi. A Catholic activist with Washington, DC-based Sojourners, a mostly liberal Protestant political action caucus headed by pacifist Jim Wallis, was a prominent voice among the 80 participants.
“There is no ‘just war,’” claimed the public declaration of this gathering. It also urged Pope Francis towards an encyclical or “major teaching document” shifting the church decisively against all war.
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Comment by MarcoPolo on April 22, 2016 at 7:55 pm
Hallelujah! Let those who feel War is necessary, fight them, themselves!