Vance issues warning to Pope Leo. Vance said it was wrong for the Pope to criticize those who wield the sword.

Absolutely!!

I'm trying to imagine what Europe and the rest of the world would be like today if in 1939 our parents and grandparents had just dropped to their knees and prayed as German and Japanese armies took possession of their countries.

I'm 1-12 Catholic educated and remember the class on moral ethics and apparently Leo must have missed that class. Just wars with unintended horrible consequences are well within the scope of moral virtue. If Iran hides its rocket launchers behind children hospitals and Israeli fires back, the death of those children are at the hands of the Iranians and not the Israelis who fire back.