Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in an March 4 interview with Vatican News, reviewed the war-induced bloodshed that is arising around the globe, now highlighted by the U.S.-Israeli invasion of Iran, and offered a way out from this process that is tearing apart civilization.
Asked, “Your eminence, how are you experiencing these dramatic hours?” Parlin responded, “With great sorrow, because the peoples of the Middle East—including the already fragile Christian communities—have once again been plunged into the horror of war, which brutally shatters human lives, brings destruction, and drags entire nations into spirals of violence with uncertain outcomes.” He noted Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Angelus devotional presentation March 1, in which he spoke of the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, as a “tragedy of enormous proportions,” and the “risk of an irreparable abyss.”
There is a worrying trend for civilization. Parolin said, “the erosion of international law is truly worrying: justice has given way to force; the force of law has been replaced by the law of force.”
