Some ambiguity has arisen in the Vatican – and in the White House – as to what is to be done about the barbarity currently taking place in the Middle East, which has shocked the whole world. And what to call it.
It began with an article by Fr. Luciano Larivera, S.J. in La Civiltà Cattolica (a Jesuit publication in Rome regarded as an authoritative, if indirect, papal voice): “Obviously, to promote peace it is necessary to know what the war truly is, and not what one would like it to be. It is crucial to study and to comprehend why and how the Islamic State [i.e., ISIS] fights. Theirs is a war of religion and of annihilation.”
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