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Parolin, the attacked person cannot be asked to give up weapons

2022-08-09T08:32:39.523Z


In the war between Russia and Ukraine, as in all conflicts, "disarmament is the only adequate and decisive response to these problems, as the Magisterium of the Church maintains. Read, for example, St. John's encyclical Pacem in terris XXIII. (ANSA)


(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, AUGUST 09 - In the war between Russia and Ukraine, as in all conflicts, "disarmament is the only adequate and decisive response to these problems, as the Magisterium of the Church maintains. encyclical Pacem in terris of Saint John XXIII. It is a question of a general disarmament and subject to effective controls. In this sense, it does not seem correct to ask the attacked person to renounce their weapons and not to ask, even before, who is attacking him ".

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin says this in an interview with Limes.


    Parolin recalls the Church's position on arms: "As for the use of arms, the catechism of the Catholic Church provides for legitimate defense. Peoples have the right to defend themselves if attacked. But this legitimate armed defense must be exercised within certain conditions that catechism itself enumerates. : that all other means to put an end to the aggression have proved impractical or ineffective; that there are well-founded reasons for success; that the use of armin does not cause evils and disorders more serious than those to be eliminated.


   Finally, the catechism states that the power of modern means of destruction plays an important role in evaluating this problem.

For these reasons, Pope Francis, in the encyclical Fratelli tutti affirms that it is no longer possible to think of war as a solution, because the risks - underlines the Vatican Secretary of State - will probably always be greater than the hypothetical utility attributed to it ".


    To say that the Pope is pro-Russian is a "simplification" that does not hold against the fact that "Pope Francis condemned the Russian aggression of Ukraine right from the start, with unequivocal words, he never put aggressor and aggressor on the same level, nor was he or appeared equidistant ", concludes Cardinal Parolin. (ANSA).


Source: ansa

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