Este Papa e o outro

"After the Vatican listened to Novak's [Michael Novak, o Neo-Cons Católico] arguments for war, Pope John Paul II, sent a special envoy to the White House, although President Bush refused to see him. Those who claim that the current Pope's opposition to the war is nothing but mere "opinion," may be interested to know that Benedict has repeated many times over the years that "The concept of a 'preventive war' does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church."

Pope John Paul II called this war "a defeat for Humanity" which could not be morally or legally justified, a point which Benedict XVI has constantly re-iterated. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the compendium of official Church teaching, and clearly does not contain any approval of "pre-emptive war," the kind which "Catholic theologian" Michael Novak claimed to be "morally obligatory."" GOP Catholics