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The Magisterium condemns “the savagery of war” ¹⁰³² Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 77: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 1100; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2307-2317. and asks that war be considered in a new way.¹⁰³³ Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes,80: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 1103-1104. In fact, “it is hardly possible to imagine that in an atomic era, war could be used as an instrument of justice”.¹⁰³⁴ John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 55 (1963) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1963), 291. War is a “scourge” ¹⁰³⁵ Leo XIII, Address to the College of Cardinals: Acta Leonis XIII, 19 (1899), 270-272. and is never an appropriate way to resolve problems that arise between nations, “it has never been and it will never be”,¹⁰³⁶ John Paul II, Meeting with Officials of the Roman Vicariate (17 January 1991): L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 21 January 1991, p. 1; cf. John Paul II, Address to the Latin-Rite Bishops of the Arabian Peninsula (1 October 1990), 4: AAS 83AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 83 (1991) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1991), 475. because it creates new and still more complicated conflicts.¹⁰³⁷ Cf. Paul VI, Address to Cardinals (24 June 1965): AAS 57AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 57 (1965) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1965), 643-644. When it erupts, war becomes an “unnecessary massacre”,¹⁰³⁸ Benedict XV, Appeal to the Leaders of the Warring Nations (1 August 1917): AAS 9AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 9 (1917) at vatican.va — list of its scanned parts (1917), 423. an “adventure without return”¹⁰³⁹ John Paul II, Prayer for peace during General Audience (16 January 1991): Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, XIV, 1 (1991), 121. that compromises humanity's present and threatens its future. “Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war”.¹⁰⁴⁰ Pius XII, Radio Message (24 August 1939): AAS 31AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 31 (1939) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1939) 334; John Paul II, Message for the 1993 World Day of Peace, 4: AAS 85AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 85 (1993) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1993), 433-434; cf. John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 55 (1963) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1963), 288. The damage caused by an armed conflict is not only material but also moral.¹⁰⁴¹ Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes 79: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 1102-1103. In the end, war is “the failure of all true humanism”,¹⁰⁴² John Paul II, Message for the 1999 World Day of Peace, 11: AAS 91AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 91 (1999) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1999), 385. “it is always a defeat for humanity”: ¹⁰⁴³ John Paul II, Address to the Diplomatic Corps (13 January 2003), 4: L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 15 January 2003, p. 3. “never again some peoples against others, never again! ... no more war, no more war!” ¹⁰⁴⁴ Paul VI, Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations (4 October 1965), 5: AAS 57AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 57 (1965) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1965), 881.