The Vatican just hit the 'NUCLEAR' button over Trump's Iran War

[0:00]How can this be normal? How can people of goodwill not be appalled by such rhetoric? The first ever US born Pope, is now openly challenging the war being waged by the other most influential American on Earth, President Trump. Pope Leo the 14th tweeted, quote, those who pray are aware of their own limitations. They do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God. Enough of the idolatry of self and money. Enough of the display of power. He even took the extraordinary step to call on people to contact their elected leaders to advocate for peace. A Trinity College Dublin professor told MS NOW the Pope's appeal to people to call their representatives, are quote the equivalent of the nuclear button for the Vatican. The war must have a just cause. In other words, it can only be used to protect innocent lives. It also needs to be waged as a last resort. The criterion of the just war is that you don't have wars of choice. Wars of choice by their very definition, are immoral and cannot be waged and cannot be justified. The just war doctrine also goes further than it says even in a just war, not everything goes. And so there must be great care taken to protect civilian populations, to protect civilian infrastructure. And so I think that just war doctrine again, going back thousands of years on now, any kind of threat to annihilate an entire civilization so that it can never return again. There is no way that can be squared with any understanding of the just war doctrine. When the Pope speaks, he speaks to the conscience of people. He's not appealing to people's political ideologies. He wants to raise something that's more fundamental. And that is, what's going on in the American consciousness? What's going on in American society? What has happened to our politics? That's such a rhetoric, that's such a threat, can be seen as normal. These are the things that the Pope wants to raise. He's not interjecting himself directly into a political debate. The Pope wants to do something that's far more fundamental. And that is to say, what has happened to our politics, that such rhetoric can be normalized, that can be excused, or that political leaders aren't moved to a concern about this kind of rhetoric. I think that's the kind of thing that Pope Leo wants to put before us. He's not trying to interject into himself into a political debate. He wants the political debate to be about, how can this be normal? How can people of goodwill not be appalled by such rhetoric?