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from Catholic social teaching

"However, peace will be but an empty-sounding word unless it is founded on the order which this present document has outlined in confident hope: an order founded on truth, built according to justice, nurtured and animated by charity, and put into practice in freedom." - Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris

"When so many people are hungry, when so many families suffer from destitution, when so many remain steeped in ignorance, when so many schools, hospitals and homes worthy of the name remain to be built, all public or private squandering of wealth-every exhausting armaments race becomes an intolerable scandal." - Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio

"The arms race is a threat to human beings' highest good, which is life; it makes poor people and individuals yet more miserable while making richer those already powerful; it creates a continuous danger of war, and in the case of nuclear arms, it threatens to destroy all life from the face of the earth." - 1971 Synod of Bishops, Justitia in Mundo

"How can one justify the fact that huge sums of money, which could and should be used for increasing the development of peoples, are instead-assigned to the increase of stockpiles of weapons, both in developed countries and in the developing ones, thereby upsetting the real priorities?...If 'development is the new name for peace', war and military preparations are the major enemy of the integral development of peoples." - Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis