

These motives underlie the decision to go to war and they are too often justified by an ideology ….” He said, “War is madness!…War is irrational its only plan is to bring destruction: it seeks to grow by destroying…greed, intolerance, the lust for power. On this centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Pope Francis visited a war memorial in Northern Italy and spoke again of a third world war, “Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.”


A man said to me, ‘Father, we are in World War III, but spread out in small pockets everywhere.’ He was right.” On his flight back from Korea the Holy Father lamented the rise of anarchic violence around the world saying, “Today we are in a world at war everywhere. The pope issues a call to arms for the advancement of peace.įor a second time Pope Francis has spoken of a third world war.
