It's hard to make a case that that's a matter of faith or morals and it'd be extra hard to square it with Bible verses like the one where Jesus told His followers to sell their cloak and buy a sword if they had to.

In short, don't hold your breath, they don't go around making pronouncements like that much. In terms of deliberate pronouncements ex cathedra, I think there have only ever been two? Basically, it just doesn't happen most doctrine is already well-decided and not going to change.

I mean, I get what he's saying--war is hell and you don't want to start one. I'm on board with that one.

The problem is that the method is entirely wrong from what I've seen in history. Peace through strength works, surrendering your weapons when people hate you has a long history of being a really bad idea. In particular, Cambodia's king tried to disarm the people. The commies there stole the shipments of weapons and then murdered the people with their own guns.

I don't want that to happen here. Also, I'm pretty sure the church leadership is being blackmailed by Epstein types. The pope's election was not normal. I imagine they indicated that they were going to blame all the pedo scandals on the former pope and he couldn't exactly hide in the Vatican and never leave without a lot of questions, or something like that. I don't claim to actually know anything here for sure, but it makes entirely too much sense after what we read in all the leaked emails and what we know about how Epstein's blackmail operations worked.