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The Catechism of the Catholic Church lays out the conditions for a just war in paragraph 2309. The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave and certain. All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impracticable and ineffective. There must be serious prospects of success. And the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition. And so these are briefly the four. The four elements of a just war. And I thought to myself, well, this is a just war, then by this definition, by these elements. But let's continue, let's dig a little deeper. The Catechism of the Catholic Church 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. St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Now, in contrast, these were the messages from Pope Leo XIV yesterday, while Mark Levin was saying that a mother loves all her children in the same way and with her whole heart standing before the mother of our heart, we want to promise to do the same, striving to ensure that no one lacks love and what is necessary to live with dignity and to be happy. May those who are hungry have food, may all the sick receive the care they need, may children access proper education, and may the elderly live their later years in serenity. And that's one of the things he was saying during this powerful speech he gave in Angola. Contrast that to Donald Trump. Donald Trump covering up a child sex trafficking ring, the Epstein files. Donald Trump blowing up elementary schools in Manab in Iran. Donald Trump bragging about blowing up fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela. Contrast that to Pope Leo xiv, who is saying the following. While Donald Trump is out there lifting sanctions against Russia, allowing Russia to make money in order to kill Ukrainians and to wreak havoc across the world and unleash hell, here's what Pope Leo the 14th says. I am deeply saddened by the recent escalation of attacks against Ukraine, which continue to afflict civilians. I express my solidarity with those who are suffering and assure all the Ukrainian people of my prayers. I renew my appeal for weapons to fall silent and for the path of dialogue to be pursued. Imagine if we had a leader in the United States who can say something like that. Then Pope Leo XIV also writes, the ceasefire announced in Lebanon, however, offers cause for hope. It represents a glimmer of relief for the Lebanese people and for the Levant. I encourage those who are working toward a diplomatic solution to continue peace talks so that a cessation of hostilities throughout the Middle east may become permanent. Now, while he was saying that, what was Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump was using his naval blockade of Iran to attack an Iranian ship and to board it. Meanwhile, you had Netanyahu hitting sites in Lebanon during the ceasefire and apparently has Hezbollah hitting sites back. But, I mean, the ceasefire is a ceasefire in name only right now. And we also know Netanyahu hitting innocent civilians there and of course, in Gaza as well, which is so horrific, horrific, horrific. Pope Leo XIV also says, peace is not something we must invent. It is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters. We must simply accept one another. We are one family inhabiting the same home and this wonderful planet. Now, it should also be noted the families of more than 100 school children killed in the US bombing of the Iranian school in Manob, they wrote a letter of gratitude to Pope Leo the 14th. In it, they thank him for being a champion of peace and a voice for their deceased children. The White House has yet to apologize for the incident. In fact, the White House continues to cover up their massacre of the little girls in the elementary school in Manob. Again, shout out to Christopher Hale, who writes letters for Leo, and here's how he describes what went down. The parents of the children killed in the Iranian school bombing of Manob by Donald Trump and Netanyahu, they wrote to Pope Leo xiv. You can see their letter right here. Let me translate it for you. Today, the empty chairs of the classroom in Manob are bitter testaments to this very truth. Truth. A truth brought about by the making of American bombs, directed by illogical war bongers. We thank you that amidst the tumult of war, you became the voice of righteousness and reminded everyone that lasting peace and tranquility are achieved not through force and weapons, but through the path of dialogue and the genuine search for a solution for all. Our children will never return home again to build a better tomorrow. But the prayer of us bereaved fathers and mothers is that your message to lay down weapons is heard, especially when America and the Israeli regime, with their excessive demands, fuel the fire of these crimes. We ask you to continue to be the voice of the voiceless children and strive to reopen all paths of dialogue so that no more weapons are built and no father or mother anywhere on this earthly sphere is forced to whisper a nighttime lullaby over the cold tombstone of their child. And I just want to share this with you as well. This is Pope Leo XIV when he was still a cardinal. And here's what he said. You can see this is what he's been preaching his whole life. Here, play this clip. Every one of us, whether we were born in the United States of America or on the North Pole, we all are given that gift of being created, the image and likeness of God. And the day we forget that is the day we forget who we are. We forget who Christ has called us to be. Now, Christopher Hale, who I've become very friendly with through reading his writings, and you've seen him on the network as well. Here's what he writes as well. He goes. Let me say to my conservative Catholic friends the thing I have wanted to say for a long time. Your movement has been hijacked by a celebrity populism that puts evangelical grievance ahead of Catholic conscience, and only you can take it back. The faithful who built the American Catholic conservative tradition, who prayed the rosary outside clinics, fought for school choice, defended the reverence of the Latin Mass when bishops would not. Those faithful did not sign up to be silent partners while the Pope is insulted. You do not owe fidelity to men who will not defend the Holy Father. Your fidelity belongs to Christ and to the Church he founded upon Peter. For my part, I promise this. Those of us on the other side of the aisle must earn your trust back through deeds, not slogans, through policies that honor the unborn and the immigrant alike, the family and the worker, and the reverence of the sanctuary and the dignity of those living on the street. Changing your conviction is not what I ask. I ask only that you refuse a bargain that requires your silence while your Pope is treated as a punchline. Now, I just want to say this again. At the end of it, we have people who watch this network from, again, all different religions. And the point of me sharing with you what Pope Leo xiv, is not a religious message at all. I want to be very clear about that, because we respect your right to worship whatever you want to worship or worship. Nothing at all. From atheists to this religion to that religion. We welcome everybody. So long as you're empathetic, you're loving, you're compassionate, you build up each other. We try to make this world a better place. I don't think that gets talked about enough on any news network. It's always the talking heads yelling and screaming at each other and on the horse race politics. Let's take a step back and talk about what we do when we inhabit this earth for a short period of time. And I just think it's incumbent upon us to live lives with meaning and positivity and uplift people and to help, to lend a helping hand, not hurt, not to beat down, to help people. That's why we do this network. That to me is at the core of everything. And it's great to see Pope Leo XIV or any leader, religious or otherwise use their position of power to do good. To do good. Not to use your power to do what Trump does, to grift and to take and to steal and to crime and to cover up and to be make the world the worst place. Using your power for good and to help, using your platform to help. And I just hope that that's what you think we do here at the Midas Touch Network to use this platform to help, even if just a little bit, by helping get out the truth. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 7 million subscribers. Love this video, Support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad, free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile with a message for everyone paying Big Wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop with Mint. You can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying. No judgments, but. But that's weird. 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