The Roman Catechism (Catechism of the Council of Trent) and the Baltimore Catechism both confirm when Human life lawfully may be taken.
In self-defense, when we are unjustly attacked and have no other means of saving our own lives; In a just war, when the safety or rights of the nation require it.
By the lawful execution of a criminal, fairly tried and found guilty of a crime punishable by death.
Killing In A Just War the soldier is guiltless who, by a pure desire of serving the interests of his country, takes away the life of an enemy in a just war.
ROME (KerkNet) – The Vatican, which is usually the use of armed forces reject the solution of conflicts, now finds that there is a military intervention “necessary” in Iraq. This was reported by the French newspaper ‘La Croix’ today. “We must now intervene before it is too late,” said Msgr.Silvano Tomasi, permanent representative of the Holy See at the UN. While the United States has begun to provide humanitarian aid in the North of the country and harass the theses of the jihadists of the Islamic State seems prelate military action at this time is necessary to stop. Advance of the jihadists According to Msgr. Tomasi is also particularly urgent suppliers of weapons and money to the fundamentalists and the countries that tacitly support them to expose and put an end to such support that ultimately neither good for the Christians nor the Muslims. The prelate accuses the Western world a certain ‘indifference’, while the militias of the Islamic State “destroy and kill without mercy.” Mgr. Tomasi sees this regard is a certain evolution.”The international community is starting to do something,” he says. “In the Muslim world, something moves, said the prelate. “Some Muslim leaders have experienced the persecution of innocent Christians strongly condemned,” the Permanent Representative of the Holy See at the UN.
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