“Greed, intolerance, the lust for power…. These motives underlie the decision to go to war, and they are too often justified by an ideology; but first there is a distorted passion or impulse,” said the Pope.
Speaking at the end of a week in which President Obama announced a new plan to combat the terrorist group Islamic State, and with almost constant news of growing conflicts in various parts of the world, the Pope said that “even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.”
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Full report: http://www.aleteia.org/en/world/article/world-may-be-in-beginnings-of-world-war-iii-pope-suggests-5800705059192832?utm_campaign=NL_en&;utm_source=daily_ newsletter&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=NL_en-14/09/2014