A month after the start of the conflict, the pope He dedicated Russia and Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Our Lady. A highly significant gesture, which also refers to the third mystery of Fatima and which, in the spirit of Pope Francis, will serve to arouse the conscience of Catholics.
For days inside and outside the “Palazzo” there has been discussion about increasing military spending from 1.7% to 2% of GDP, as NATO has been demanding for a long time. Parliamentarians are burdened by Vladimir Putin’s constant threats to use nuclear or chemical weapons Catholics who are called upon to vote on this provision, well aware of the Pope’s appeals against the rearmament of the western powers.
“The Pope moves in a certain area of his own and cannot be a chaplain of the EU and NATO. At the same time, we are not Swiss Guards, but Italian parliamentarians working with the EU and NATO, explains Il Giornale.it, Stefano Ceccanti’s deputy. War, like zan ddl or the end of life, is therefore one of those ethically sensitive issues in which belief and the secular nature of the state can come into conflict. And in this regard, the Piddino deputy recalls: “The wise motto of liberal Catholics was ‘Catholics with the Pope, Liberals with the Statute’ Born“A vision also shared by Renziano Luciano Nobili, according to which “the Pope must always be consulted and not only when it suits him”, but the need to create a common defense system and a European Union army.” Nobody thinks that our future can be built with more weapons, but at the same time European security and peace depend on agreements in the EU and NATO”, stresses the Italia Viva MP, convinced that the problem is not how much GDP is devoted to defence determined, but when it is spent “to be safer today and tomorrow in the face of the curse of autocracies”.
The truth is that the Russian Tsar is very scary on both center left and center right, and his ambitions don’t seem to want to end in Kyiv. “Wladimir Putin he cannot believe that he can bully Europe or annex territories according to twentiethcentury logic,” explains Friars of Italy MP Maria Teresa Bellucci, who rejects the label of militarism but calls for an integrated European defense system in support of NATO.in in this respect the forced senator Maurizio Gasparri He recalled how Vatican Foreign Minister Pietro Parolin had made it clear in the past few days that the use of weapons as a means of selfdefense by the attacked Ukrainians was unavoidable. In short: “The Holy Father is the Pope, but we lay people cannot sit on the sofa and watch this massacre,” is the reason given by the compulsory senator, which is shared by the majority of Catholic parliamentarians.
The only one who has doubts about the use of force is Simone Pillon from the Lega Nord: “I am very perplexed by the idea of sending weapons to one of the parties to the conflict. It doesn’t seem like a good way to search for me peace“. Even the Senator of the UDC, Paola Binetti, shows us all her uneasiness about the need to use weapons, but she wonders: “We are against violence, but when we see one person massacring another, what should you do do? Should we confine ourselves to repeating nonviolence, or should we intervene? In short, the fear of the possible outbreak of a third world war is palpable and terrifies everyone, both inside and outside the “palace. However, Catholic doubts are allayed by centrist Senator Gaetano Quagliariello, who clarifies: “This problem has been solved by Catholics since the days of World War I” and adds: “In Catholic doctrine, the self defense it is absolutely permitted and obligatory”.