Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: His erotic behavior continues with troubling new attacks on the Pope.
Last night, he name checked Pope Leo online pushing back
against the Pontiff's criticism of the war, and rather than
caution the president, the White House's resident Catholic JD. Vance,
escalated those attacks, telling a crowd of young conservatives that
Pope Leo should be quote careful when talking about theology.
And here's how Speaker Mike Johnson, defending both Trump and Advance.
Speaker 1: A pontiff or any religious leader can say anything they want,
but obviously if you wade into political waters, I think
you should expect some political response. It is a very
well settled matter of a Christian theology. There's something called
the just war doctrine. There's a time to every purpose
under heaven.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell that is, because when
you go and look at the Catechism of the Roman
Catholic Church that I can specifically cite for you, a
mister speaker, section twenty three oh seven to twenty seven,
twenty three seventeen, it lays out exactly the framing for
a just war. And there's nothing about under heaven or
anything like that. What it specifically refers to is the
idea that this is a moral framework and this concept
called use adbellum, which means right to go to war,
and what it requires. All these things have to be met,
and this is what the Pope has been trying to
get it, folks to understand. Just cause typically self defense
against aggression, legitimate authority declared by proper political authority Congress
write intention not revenge, conquest or domination, last resort, all
peaceful options are exhausted, probability of success not feudal bloodshed,
and certainly proportionality expected good outweighs the harm. The other
part is called in below, which means right conduct in war,
and that speaks specifically to how you behave how you
conduct the war. You must protect civilians, no intentional targeting,
and proportionality force use must match the objective. Folks, this
is not this war. This is why presidents in the
past have gone before the American people to talk on
touch on all these things, because that core thread that
the speaker clearly doesn't understand as he refers to it.
It's nice to use the two words, but you need
to know what they mean. When they're put together.
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