Sunday, March 30, 2003
Pope Warns That War Could Bring 'Religious Catastrophe'
Pope John Paul II said today he hoped that the human tragedy of the war in Iraq would not set Christians and Muslims against each other and spark "a religious catastrophe." "Let us not permit a human tragedy to become a religious catastrophe," he said.
The pope is opposed to the war in Iraq and led a Vatican diplomatic campaign to avert it. The Iraq conflict has put the Vatican at odds with the Bush administration because the pope has refused to bless the conflict as a "just war."
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