This Pope is a fool...complains about guns, again, as he is surrounded by armed security...

[JimBowie1958]

Pretty sure the Catholic church has been pro gun control before pope Francis. It aligns with their views on abortion and the death penalty, they are very strict about human life and against things that can end it. If you are a Catholic you should know this 2aguy.

No, the libs in the church have long been anti-gun, but most of the Popes have been wise enough to take a pass when it came to comment publicly.


The Catechism on the Right of Self-Defense

"The most recent restatement of the Church’s teaching on self-defense is in the second edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, ## 2263-2264: 2263 The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing.

“The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one’s own life; and the killing of the aggressor…. The one is intended, the other is not.” 2264 Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one’s own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow: “If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful….

Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one’s own life than of another’s.”

Libtards in the Vatican don't bother with the fine distinctions of what is bound and not bound, if they can get away with it.

Catholic Church should demonstrate courage of convictions on ‘gun control’

"Tommaso Di Ruzza, “the expert on disarmament and arms control at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace” tells us “armed defense is something appropriate for nations, not for all individual citizens in a state where rule of law is effective.”

"So basically subjects need to disarm and give rulers whatever they want. Because you have to admit, “monopoly of violence” laws seem pretty effective at producing that result.

"Di Ruzza said that in "a democracy, where there is respect for institutions (of law), the citizen relinquishes his right to revenge onto the state," which, through its law enforcement and courts system, aims to mete out a fair and just punishment."

Then there is a patron saint of handguns.....

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society

This is also a good article on what the church actually teaches, and not just the opinion of some Vatican fagot.

IF the day ever does come that the church tells me to disarm, I will leave the church and tell them to shove their Bull up their collective asses.

Gun control does not mean complete disarmament.

History proves you wrong, and the comments of the Di Russa and others at the Vatican show that the Vatican wants eventual elimination of all privately owned guns, and the government the sole holder of guns at all.