Above: “Children are the First Victims of Every Conflict” article from 2023.
War is Always the Wrath of God through the instrumentality of men.
War is always the creation of more widows and orphans.
This is why the Catholic Church is anti-war, but not pacifist.
Sometimes, war is necessary. But war can only be waged if the conditions of just war theory are met. Let God see and judge. Let every Christian speak and act in whatever way which can provoke all men to charity and mercy, which alone will build a just peace and soften evil hearts.
I was at a men’s retreat last weekend and heard the news that war has erupted in the Middle East, due to the breakdown of a decades-long struggle of western elites (and Israel) to control the Muhammadans of Iran. This conflict goes back to the Post-1918 efforts of the victorious allies to not form a just peace (nor combat the errors of Russia) but rather carve up the former Ottoman Empire for their own bank accounts.
But it’s much more than that. Who is pulling the strings in the current Israel-USA vs. Islam tensions since October 7, 2023?
Have you noticed how anti-Christian Jews and Zionist Protestants are on one side, and anti-Christian Muslims and Marxists are on the other?
Have noticed that almost every media source is either on one side or the other, both trying to harden hearts against the other side with inflammatory rhetoric?
And did you notice something else… the Church in Israel – both Hebrew Catholic and Arab Catholic – (but also in the Middle East in general) is in the crossfire of this and every such conflict? Therefore, CUI BONO? Who stands to truly gain from all this bloodshed? Who is trying to destroy the Catholic Church?
Who was the real loser in the USA invasion of Iraq in 2003? The Chaldean Catholic Church.
The Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Syriacs form one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. There were around 1.5 million Christians in Iraq before the US invasion in 2003, but the population has since dwindled to around 150,000. The community faced several attacks in the chaos following the war, most notably by the Islamic State (IS) in 2014 [source] [cf. source].
Therefore it is necessary to discern who are the real players in this conflict, the real persons who are pulling all the strings, because they are angelic persons:
The fallen angels.
Are they not the ones who are puppeteering all the elites to encourage more and more violence, which creates more widows and orphans, destabilising the region and destroying whatever parts of the Church have managed to hold on?
Therefore the Holy Father, as is his duty, called for true peace and dialogue on Sunday instead of bloodshed. And every Catholic should do the same, because Catholicism is anti-war, but not pacifist.
I respect every Catholic’s conscience who believes that this or that war is just.
I respect every Catholic’s conscience who truly believes that this or that war is unjust.
But let us not fall into the trap laid for us by the fallen angels. Let us rather provoke one another to charity, and keep the spirit of unity in the bond of peace, “truthing in love.”[1]
[1] ἀληθεύοντες δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ (Eph. iv. 15), literally “truthing in love” or “doing the truth in love.”