Pope Francis walks inside the Austro-Hungarian cemetery at Fogliano in Redipuglia September 13, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Stefano Rellandini
Pope Says World's Many Conflicts Amount To Piecemeal World War Three -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a "piecemeal" Third World War, condemning the arms trade and "plotters of terrorism" sowing death and destruction.
"Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep," Francis said in the homily of a Mass during a visit to Italy's largest war memorial, a large, Fascist-era monument where more than 100,000 soldiers who died in World War One are buried.
The pope began his brief visit to northern Italy by first praying in a nearby, separate cemetery for some 15,000 soldiers from five nations of the Austro-Hungarian empire which were on the losing side of the Great War that broke out 100 years ago.
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My Comment: We are still far away from anything that would resemble what a World War would look like .... but we are definitely going in the wrong direction.
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I'd argue that the war on radical Islam is essentially a world war since it affects pretty much every country on earth. It's not a total war though, which would be the difference between it and World Wars I and II.
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