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There you go, my friend.

It is yet another day when the entire world is on edge over Donald Trump's senseless

and elective war with the Pope.

The president of the United States has been raging at the pontiff ever since Leo brazenly pointed out war is bad.

Trump's allies have been quick to jump in and defend him, like Speaker Mike Johnson, who said this about the Pope.

I was taking a little bit of back, just honestly, frankly, but something that was said, I think he said several days back,

that something about those who engage in war,

you know, that Jesus doesn't hear their prayers or something.

You know, it is a very well-settled matter of Christian theology.

There's something called the just war doctrine.

Correcting the Pope on Catholic theology is a little like going into the woods and saying,

oh, excuse me, Mr. Bear, do you really think this is the appropriate place for you to be pooping?

Really? Who's going to clean that up?

If you don't know, and you may not, just war is a Catholic doctrine that goes all the way back to the church fathers,

St. Ambrose and St. Augustine.

And there are many criteria, including it must be in self-defense once all peace efforts have failed.

Only then can the war be said to have just cause.

As opposed to Trump, who appears to have taken us to war just because.

The Pope, the Pope came back.

A little work, a little walk down the Narthex.

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