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"Pope Leo suggested on Friday that Christian political leaders who start wars should go to confession & assess whether they are following the teachings of Jesus, without naming any specific leaders or conflicts.
'Do those Christians who bear grave responsibility in armed conflicts have the humility & courage to make a serious examination of conscience and to go to confession?' the pope asked in a speech to priests."
~ Joshua McElwee
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"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...
religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #morality
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Normalcy and Resistance Amid an Unjust War
This week, we open the conversation with reflections on the challenges of living daily life amid the onslaught of horrific news, so often these days instigat...YouTube
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
"In an interview with the Catholic Standard this week, McElroy said: 'The criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.'”
#Trump #Iran #war #morality #CardinalMcElroy
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"Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is 'not morally legitimate', going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war."
~ Anna Betts
#Trump #Iran #war #morality #CardinalMcElroy
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Washington cardinal says US war on Iran ‘not morally legitimate’
Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails ‘criterion of right intention’Anna Betts (The Guardian)