In recent years, war has begun to feel normal again. Conflicts erupt, borders are violated, and international law is treated as optional. In this video, Pedro Gabriel returns to a phrase Pope Francis often used: “a piecemeal World War.” What once sounded exaggerated or imprecise now appears disturbingly accurate…
This episode explores how the Church consistently challenges our instinctive way of interpreting the world and even global events—and why she so often turns out to be right. From Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV, Catholic social teaching offers a moral framework that resists tribalism, rejects “ends justify the means” reasoning, and insists that power must always be subordinated to justice, law, and the dignity of the human person.
In this video, Pedro addresses:
– What the Church really means by a “piecemeal world war”
– Why good outcomes do not automatically justify immoral actions
– Just war theory and its criteria
– The temptation to reduce complex moral questions to dichotomies
– The Church’s call for a stronger international rule of law
– How Christianity radically redefines power and greatness
– Why modern politics is drifting back toward a pre-Christian, “might makes right” worldview.
Pedro Gabriel, MD, is a Catholic layman and physician, born and residing in Portugal. He is a medical oncologist, currently employed in a Portuguese public hospital. A published writer of Catholic novels with a Tolkienite flavor, he is also a parish reader and a former catechist. He seeks to better understand the relationship of God and Man by putting the lens on the frailty of the human condition, be it physical and spiritual. He also wishes to provide a fresh perspective of current Church and World affairs from the point of view of a small western European country, highly secularized but also highly Catholic by tradition.
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