In an interview with the Italian quarterly Dialoghi, reported in Vatican News, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, continued with the Vatican’s sharp attacks on the policies emanating from the Trump White House (without ever naming him).
“It is a utopia to think that peace is guaranteed by weapons and by balances imposed by the strongest, rather than by international agreements,” Parolin stated. “We firmly believe that arsenals must be emptied, starting with nuclear ones.”
“There is a need for more voices for peace, more voices against the madness of the arms race, more voices raised in favor of our poorest brothers and sisters, more voices and more proposals—I am thinking, for example, of the world of Catholic universities—for new economic models inspired by justice and care for the weakest, rather than by the idolatry of money.”
Regarding the Trump administration’s appeal to religious values, he pointed out certain inconsistencies: “The Christian faith is not a display counter of various products from which the buyer may choose. We cannot claim to love and defend life while caring only about the unborn, without recognizing that the lives of migrants who die at sea are also lives.”
