Catholic Bishops: War With Iraq Hard to Justify

The Washington Post | November 14, 2002| | Copyright

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops raised serious moral doubts yesterday about the nation going to war with Iraq.

By a vote of 228 to 14 with three abstentions, the bishops endorsed a statement declaring that they "find it difficult to justify the resort to war against Iraq, lacking clear and adequate evidence of an imminent attack of a grave nature."

The hierarchy said it is "deeply concerned" about the use of preventive wars "to overthrow threatening regimes or to deal with weapons of mass destruction."

The bishops also said a decision to attack Iraq requires "some form of international sanction, ...

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