Stop all wars, crave for peace

Wars

All wars are violations of God’s will which makes us all brothers and sets us to live in peace according to a law of love. Fighting our brothers with arms, means becoming murderers. And murder is a work of Satan, precisely called The Murderer because he aims to destroy the Creator’s masterpiece in man. And because every evil done to our brothers is done indirectly to Christ, the murderer is nothing but an effigy of the God killer: in the effigy of man and a repetition of the crucifixion of the redeemed,  war becomes ordinarily a forceful attack against the divine order by those who provoke it, in the pretext of conquest or pride: a rebellion against the Creator.

Igino Giordani, The Patron of Italy – St. Francis today, Pontifical Work for the preservation of Faith, Rome 1955, p. 160

St. Francis and Peace

Francis was able even to bring peace between a wolf and the population of Gubbio: peace was kept with a pact stipulating that the people would feed the beast. Many people become fierce like wolves because they have nothing to eat: one of the means of pacification, more lasting than defeats in war, is feeding the underfed populations. The deep causes of the wars, under the mythological pretexts of patriotism, nationalism, classicism and even of religion, can also be found here: in the misery of some populations, which cause them to be overly prolific. Peoples that are hungry explode, when unable to bear up: they assault, rob, kill and make wars. 

Igino Giordani, The Patron of Italy – St.  Francis today, cit., pp. 160-161

What a truth!

Humanity spends three-fourths of its income on arms to exterminate all incomes:  throws away its goods to conquer those it does not possess. In fact, the modern wars do not procure more booties but are waged in complete losses, ruining both the defeated and the winner. Better still, the winner, in order not to be ruined further, has to give aid to the loser. War is so absurd that it is no longer useful even to rhetoricians. Some guardians of privileges – and wealth – have remained to advocate it, and impose it by means of harmful armaments. Of course, by arming oneself we are led to war since – as Napoleon knew – at a certain point the rifles will shoot. 

Igino Giordani, The Patron of Italy – St. Francis today, cit., p. 163

Peace

Peace is a demand of nature since we are born to live. So the population is for peace. The tyrant is for war: we can say that in foreign politics, tyranny is war. The fact that one State provokes war is evident proof that it is betraying the people. History has shown us innumerable theories of tribes, cities, regions, peoples, and States, in which the peoples yearned for peace to be able to eat a morsel of bread in peace, to grow in civilisation – and the governments, for a reason or a pretext, often prepared the wars which produced ruins.

Igino Giordani, The Two Cities, New City, Rome, 1961, pp. 312-313

Peace and the City

What is fruitful to the peace of a city is the Gospel which inspires peaceful politics. The other is politics where peace is the peace of this world, that is, a war machine: a delayed-action bomb, but which will explode.

Igino Giordani, The Our Father, a social prayer, Devoti, Salò, 1946, p.13