ROME — Pope Francis warned Saturday that humanity is regressing into “anachronistic conflicts” fueled by extremism and “aggressive nationalism.”
“After two tragic world wars,” the pope mentioned in an tackle to members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, “it appeared that the world had discovered to maneuver progressively in direction of respect for human rights, worldwide regulation and varied types of cooperation.
“Sadly, historical past exhibits indicators of regression,” he lamented.
“Not solely are anachronistic conflicts intensifying, however cases of a myopic, extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalism are re-emerging, and new wars of domination, affecting civilians, the aged, kids, and the sick are inflicting destruction in all places,” he declared.
Valentyna Kondratieva, 75, walks into her broken residence Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, the place she sustained accidents in a Russian rocket assault final night time in Kramatorsk, Donetsk area, japanese Ukraine. (David Goldman/AP)
The various ongoing armed conflicts “are of significant concern,” he mentioned, and this “third world battle being fought ‘piecemeal’ – maybe we are able to now say that it’s ‘all out’ – is placing folks and the planet at ever better danger.”
Francis famous that Saint John Paul II gave because of God that the world had been preserved from atomic battle, however sadly, “we should proceed to hope for defense towards this hazard, which ought to have been averted way back.”
Pope John Paul II waving to the group gathered in entrance of the Jasna Gora Monastery, throughout his go to to Poland, June 1979. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Photographs)
The pope went on to say that each one data based mostly on science and expertise “should be utilized to keep away from wars and overcome struggling, poverty and new types of slavery.”
“By rejecting analysis that previously has been destined for lethal ends, scientists around the globe can unite in a standard readiness to disarm science and thus develop into a pressure for peace,” he proposed.
