In August
2014, Pope Francis warned a group of journalists
that “we are in a world at war everywhere.” He recalled: “A
man said to me, ‘Father, we are in World War III, but spread out in small
pockets everywhere.’ He was right.” The pope’s conclusion was partly a
reflection of the time. Because August 2014 marked one hundred years since the
outbreak of World War I, many historians were contemplating the possibility of
another global conflagration, with the United States and China in the roles
Britain and Germany had played a century before. The pope’s judgment also spoke
to the increasingly blurry divide between war and peace: It …read more
Source: The New Republic
