Pope Slams Weapons Makers as Controllers of the ‘Puppet-Strings of War’

This is your armory at the Vatican. I appreciate your sentiment Your Holiness, but I don’t think that you should be afforded protections that I am not. Have a blessed Christmas tho. https://t.co/nzeX9KsH8T pic.twitter.com/XGxiLgYgps

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Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians. …

He called for governments and people of goodwill in the Americas in particular to address the “troubling phenomenon” of migration and its “unscrupulous traffickers” who take advantage of innocents just looking for a better life.

He took particular aim at the weapons industry, which he said was fueling the conflicts around the globe with scarcely anyone paying attention.

“It should be talked about and written about, so as to bring to light the interests and the profits that move the puppet strings of war,” he said. “And how can we even speak of peace, when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?”