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Caritas
- Papal Office
by
His Holiness Pope Pius XIII
May 22,
2004
Issue 042
WAR
Just or Unjust --
Effective or Ineffective
Man has the obligation to conform his conduct to the moral order. God
gives to man the moral order either directly in man’s nature or by
His revelations. In these days men think that they can make the moral order
according to their own likes. Hence, the tendency is gaining strength that
says, all you need is a consensus to be right. That is the liberal philosophy
of life. That mode of judging and acting goes all the way from abortions
to anything about a just war. We shall bring to your consideration a divine
revelation in this matter.
In Psalm 126, verses 1 to 3 it reads:
“Unless the Lord build the
house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city,
he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. It is vain for you to rise before
light: rise ye after you have a sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow…”
The
footnote on this last verse reads as follows: “It is vain for you
to rise before light. That is, your early rising; your labor and worldly
solicitude, will be in vain, will avail you nothing, without the light,
grace, and blessing of God.”
We shall view the present numerous wars that are going on in many places
throughout the world. All sides seem to be focused on anything except a
just peace. All sides, by their ignoring of God and His Church are turning
out to be international gangsters, and they find themselves fighting each
other.
Let us go back into history where the Christian world found itself being
tantalized and conquered by the Muslims. What did the Christians do? They
prayed, and their favorite prayer was the Holy Rosary. They frequented
the sacraments of penance and Holy Communion. They gathered in spirit around
the reigning Pope who was Pope St. Pius V. Generously the Christians sacrificed
money and personnel for a war against the ever-encroaching enemy, the Muslims,
who were worshipers of the false god, Allah and their prophet, Mohamed.
They lowered Our Lord Jesus Christ as a minor prophet. What can such evil
men expect from the one God who created heaven and earth?
We invite you to study the history of the battle of Lepanto, which took
place in 1571. The Christians, with a comparatively small navy, went to
sea to confront the Muslim Turks. Before the great and deceive battle got
underway at sea (from ship to ship by sword and shield) the service men
went to Holy Mass and received Holy Communion. They could not trust in
their own strength alone, so, as true Christians they placed their trust
in God.
In Psalm 32, 20-21 we are directed by God to pray:
“Our soul waiteth
for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector. For in him our
heart shall rejoice and in his holy name we have trusted. Let thy
mercy, O Lord,
be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.”
Our Lord frequently used parables to explain what He wanted to convey.
We shall give you a simple parable where two male deer fought until their
antlers were interlocked in such a way that they could not get apart. They
then had to fall down to be food for predators or just rot out. We saw
those antlers, and tried to imagine how terrible it must to have been while
those two brave bucks were starving to death without water or food. The
way the armies are at it today a similar fate seems to be in the making.
First of all, to be pleasing to God while in prayer one must be in God’s
one and only Church. Once again We tell the world that by divine providence
We are the head of God’s one and only Church, and Our name is Pope
Pius XIII. We tell you this from Our mind and heart, which is endowed with
divine faith. Only those with divine and catholic faith, knowing of Our
election in 1998, can believe that We are the Pope, the head of the Church.
Here is a dogma of the faith, demanding acceptance on Us and every creature
on earth: “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”
Considering the havoc that follows from war, it is most important
that before entering war the cause must be just. We turn to an accepted
text
of “Moral Philosophy” by the Jesuit authors Rev.
Charles Coppens, S.J. and Rev. Henry Spalding, S.J. dated 1924.
We quote from pp.204-205:
“Nature has established no human authority superior to that of national
governments; hence, there is no greater human power to enforce the observance
of the moral law by nations, and to decide conflicting international claims.
A universal arbiter to decide contests between nations was indeed desirable.
Happily the Supreme Pontiff was the supreme arbiter among Christian nations
in the ages of Faith.” In special cases, lately
he has been called upon to act in a similar capacity.
“When arbitration cannot be agreed upon
by the contesting nations, recourse is had to war, to which, as
a last resort, they had an undoubted
right. That a war may be justifiable, these conditions are required:
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That a nation’s claims are
just, important, moderate, and certain.
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That every reasonable effort has been made in vain to
settle the dispute by peaceable means.
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That war offers a fair prospect
of success; for no one is justified in choosing the greater of two
evils; least of all
can those in authority
do so, for they are the guardians of their subjects’ rights.
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That
war be undertaken, as Cicero says, only as a means to bring
about a just peace.
The manner of waging war should be conformable to the approved usages
of civilized nations. To be effective, it necessitates destruction
of life and property, confiscations, sieges, blockades, battles,
bombardments,
and all the horrors unavoidably connected with such measures.
But it does not justify:
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Any useless or wanton violence
or destruction by which the final
settlement is not furthered; for instance, the direct killing
or ill-treating of non-combatants,
such as women and children.
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The killing of prisoners or
wounded soldiers who have no more power to injure.
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The use of means universally execrated as unnecessary cruel,
such as envenomed weapons, poisoned wells, etc.
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The use of means that are in themselves unjust, such as
lying, perjury, and solicitations to treason.
- The continuation of hostilities when a settlement
has been made possible.
The victorious nation has the right:
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To posses the object for which the war was waged, and to which it had all
along a just claim.
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To exact compensation for the damages sustained in the war.
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To provide
for its future security against a dangerous foe. This may
even necessitate the permanent subjection of the defeated nation.
Moderation,
justice, and humanity must ever prevail.”
End of quotation….
For the ordinary citizen it is difficult to know what the government knows
by means of its intelligence agencies. Hence, there are times when the
ordinary citizen must rely on what is known only by the government, which
in the interest of safety it is not free to divulge. Hence, there can be
a conflict where the citizen acts justly in war, but the government acts
unjustly. Every effort must be made to know the whole truth and on that,
to act in true justice.
The ordinary citizen must use his common sense, and if he has the divine
and catholic faith he can also learn the truth through the gift of the
Holy Ghost called counsel. Most wonderfully, counsel is far more excellent
than merely the virtue of prudence. Counsel is supernatural common sense,
and it is needed in all the choices of life. All those without catholic
and divine faith are debilitated persons. They cannot see even the obvious.
That leaves them open to be deceived by the criminals in society who lead
whole peoples and nations into fatal errors.
We shall give you two clear examples of what We saw: first in the Oklahoma,
Murrah Building explosion, and secondly in the destruction of the World
Trade Towers in New York City.
First We shall tell you what the liars in government and the media told
the world. As to the explosion in Oklahoma they told the public that a
single man blew up the Murrah building with a fertilizer bomb brought in
by some kind of van. If that would have been true there would have been
a large hole where the explosion took place, leaving not only a crater
in the street but also a hole in the building Well, anyone looking at the
destruction could easily deduct that only a well executed blast set off
on the pillars of the entire front of the building could blast off the
entire front of the building. Then a second lead was when help arrived
they were told that there were still bombs in the building. They had to
be removed before helpers could enter the gravely damaged structure. It
is easy to conclude that the fertilizer bomb did not put those added bombs
into the building. Even more leads exist by which the total lie could be
known.
We turn to the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York. The
published lie was, that nineteen men, mostly from Saudi Arabia, commandeered
four planes, two of which were used to bring down the World Trade Towers.
We observed the first unedited pictures of the destruction. What We saw
was that the front tower (the other one not in sight) came down exactly
as if a professional demolition contractor brought it down. Every once
in a while, the first day, such demolition movie pictures appeared. Well,
the tower smoked away for about twenty minutes, long enough to get in,
hundreds of fire fighters and many police. Then it settled down, We say
it again, exactly as if a demolition contractor did the job with a highly
scientific procedure.
All those living with Us at that time can testify that We made the above
judgment.
That We judged correctly is now corroborated the widely distributed Wisconsin
Report, P.O. Box 45, Brookfield, WI 53008-0045. Vol. XXIX Number 14 & 15,
April 1 & 8. That issue urges the readers to purchase the book “The
Rattler’s Revenge” Book III, Barbarians
Inside the Gates, by
Donn de Grand Pre. On page three, is a letter dated 23 January 2002. It
is addressed to General Peter Pace, MSMC, Vice Chairman, JCS, Department
of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20301. The opening words of
the letter are:
Regarding the 9-11 “incident”, I was assisted in my
analysis by friends of impeccable credentials, who actually believe in
Duty – Honor – Country. They are in accord with the analysis.”
The letter is all on page 3 of the Wisconsin
Report (see particulars above). In the interest of brevity
We skip to the most telling part of Donn de
Grand Pre’s letter to General Pace. The quote is as follows:
“Most – repeat most – of the people had fore-knowledge
of the pending attack on 11 September and were “on vacation” for
the deliberate destruction of the WT buildings by composition C-4 bonded
and shaped charges and/or particle beam weapons. 278 brave firefighters
and 72 courageous cops were trapped by the falling towers, which should
never have happened…unless it was programmed to happen (which it
was). Less than a thousand people actually lost their lives in the coordinated
implosion of the two towers, lasting 10 –12 seconds each, dismissed
as “collateral damage.””
The letter concludes as follows: “When,
in God’s name, will
we decide that enough is enough?
Sincere regards
from a soldier… once
young….
Donn de Grand Pre, Colonel, US Army (ret)”
We have already given you the address of the Wisconsin Report, and you
can also purchase the $45.00 book: Barbarians Inside the Gates at the same
address: the phone number being 262-782-4832.
Knowing what Colonel Donn de Grand Pre has said, one just wonders if the
given foundation for the war on terrorism, as executed since that date,
has a solid foundation in truth. Furthermore, if the Iraqi war got going
(deliberately or by mistake) without a foundation in truth, how can the
world justify continued military operations?
Previously in this letter We quoted the conditions for a just war. Of
course, when that was written, war was between two military organizations.
Just think of past wars. When the military was conquered in Germany and
Japan, for example, the war was over, and the rebuilding process commenced
immediately, both sides working at peace.
Catholic authors quote what the best minds in the Church, united with
the Pope, gave as the moral code for war. In this day the process of war
has changed, and We as Pope want to give our judgment regarding the problem
as it exists today.
The problem that We are looking at is the generally used “gorilla
warfare.” The Palestinians are without a military force, so their
one means available to them is guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare is
now the main method of warfare in Iraq. Just what is the morality of such
fighting? God gives to all men the right to defend themselves and to protect
the weaker members of their society.
Formal war is declared by legitimate governments. When guerrilla warfare
is used, generally the governments are in hiding. What is lawful to those
who want to defend their rights by the only means available, namely, privately
carried weapons?
As We see it, it is not lawful to use gorilla warfare tactics against
non-military targets. It is unlawful to blow up a bus or train carrying
non-combatant persons. It is lawful to blow up a bus or train carrying
military personnel and equipment. If the oppressor has a military base
it is lawful to attack it. It is lawful to destroy military production
lines. Likewise, if the enemy gorillas are found they may be destroyed
or captured.
There may be times when it is difficult to determine just when one may
use deadly force against an enemy. We are told that some military personnel
shield themselves by getting behind innocent civilians, such as women and
children. The general rule should be that in such circum-stances one is
not to apply uncontrolled force. A well-directed bullet from a gun may
be of very little danger to the gathered crowd. There is no excuse for
the lack of common sense. For one to have prudence plus the gift of counsel,
one must have habitual and immediate recourse to prayer. Every one will
have to answer to God for everything he does, all during his life. It is
interesting to observe how God assists the soldiers who place their trust
in Him. In this letter We already told you how a small contingent of Christian
soldiers won a decisive victory a Lepanto. It was a battle between the
Turks and the Christian world. It was sanctioned and urged on by a no less
a person than the reigning Pontiff, Pope St. Pius V.
How wonderful it would be if those with grievances went to the reigning
Pope for advice, and still better if both sides laid open their grievances
to the Pope and asked him to act as arbitrator. They can do that only if
they have the Catholic faith, for Catholics recognize that God gives, as
a general rule, more prudence and counsel to the Pope than He does to the
ordinary citizen and even to the heads of states. History is witness to
this, just and benign procedure. Lives and property are saved, and a holy
civil order of peace and contentment reigns. It is in such a world that
men can develop their full potential as citizens of this world and eventually
as saints in heaven.
We cannot take Our eyes from the world that is before us. Without justice
there will be no peace. Injustice brings on strife. We shall return to
the Wisconsin Report given above, for a problem that needs correction.
The first problem is that of proper reporting to citizens of the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
We give a quotation by a writer, Cal Thomas, found in the Los Angeles
Times, 6 March 2002: It reads: “Rev. Billy Graham was embarrassed
by the release of a 30-year old tape on which he is heard telling Pres.
Nixon that Jews had a “stranglehold” on the American media,
which needs to be broken because it was ruining the country.” There
is no reason to believe that the Jews have amended their ways even to this
day. News manipulation is a satanic way to manipulate the thinking and
acting of the general public. It can manipulate a country into an unjust
war and to an unjust treatment of peoples. When the blind follow the blind,
all fall into the pit of misery. Our Lord Jesus Christ chastised in no
uncertain terms the blind guides of His time. In Matthew 23, 16: He said: “Woe
to you, blind guides…” In Verse 24 Christ continued by saying: “Blind
guides who strain out the gnat and sallow the camel.” Verse 25, “Woe
to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you make clean the outside
of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.”
We take one more quote on this topic from the above quoted Wisconsin Report.
The present prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon is quoted as saying
on 3rd October 2001 the following: “Every time we do something you
tell me America will do this and do that……I want to tell you
something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel.
We, the Jewish people, control America.” Could it be possible that
the Jewish people forced America, and the world, into the present no-win
conflict with Iraq and other theaters of war? There is no reason to ignore
what they say when they are telling us that they are directing the USA
and, by logical extension, the world to do their bidding.
Once again, men are to live together in peace and harmony while they work
out their eternal salvation. The only reason human beings are created by
God and living on this earth for a while is that they are here for one
and only one fundamental purpose, namely, to work out their eternal salvation.
The mere cessation of war does not assure us of peace on earth. Actually,
peace is defined as “the tranquility of order.” All things
must conform to the order that God ordained by His laws and the valid and
lawful laws of His institutions on earth, namely His Church and legitimate
states. God sets it up that men must be guided by men, having legitimate
authority. When atheists and criminals work their way into governments
they destroy right order, and peace is lost. An example of bad rulers can
be found all over the world today. Russia and China are classical communist
countries, denying their citizens their God-given rights. In the USA two
men belonging to the devil worshipping Skull and Bones secret society are
running for the office of president. Sinful, gay rights laws slip into
place, while abortions continue at a horrible pace. Where there is no order,
there can be no peace. Christ is the Prince of Peace, and there will be
no peace on earth until men go to Him in His Church under Us, Pope Pius
XIII.
We repeat God’s own words in this matter, given in Psalm 126 already
quoted above: “Unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain
that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that
keepeth it.” Those who defy God during life on earth will continue
doing that for all eternity in hell. Those who do the will of God on earth
will continue doing His will for all eternity in heaven, participating
in the beatific vision of God forever, in union with all the angels and
saints. Let it be known: every person after death will go either to heaven
or to hell.
Pius, pp. XIII
May 22, 2004
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