Pope Francis says simply calling for peace won’t work unless institutions have ‘autonomous capacity’ to take concrete actions.
Multilateral institutions that have been stripped of power need a “profound reform” to guarantee peace and security between nations, Pope Francis wrote.
“It is not enough that they call for peace if they are not given the autonomous capacity to promote and realize concrete actions, since they risk not being at the service of the common good but partisan tools,” he said.
In a message May 11 to participants in an academic conference on St. John XXIII’s 1963 encyclical calling for a ban on nuclear weapons, “Pacem in Terris,” or “Peace on Earth,” Pope Francis wrote that war has never contributed to resolving conflicts, but only created “victims, destruction, loss of humanity, intolerance” and undermined faith in the future.