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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:
  1. That a nation’s claims are just, important, moderate, and certain.
  2. That every reasonable effort has been made in vain to settle the dispute by peaceable means.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  1. 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.
  2. The killing of prisoners or wounded soldiers who have no more power to injure.
  3. The use of means universally execrated as unnecessary cruel, such as envenomed weapons, poisoned wells, etc.
  4. The use of means that are in themselves unjust, such as lying, perjury, and solicitations to treason.
  5. The continuation of hostilities when a settlement has been made possible.
The victorious nation has the right:
  • To posses the object for which the war was waged, and to which it had all along a just claim.
  • To exact compensation for the damages sustained in the war.
  • 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:

“Dear General Pace,

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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