“Why is it that human beings who love peace so much should be denied it? Why should those who hate war so much be marched into its bloody fields? War may be either a vindication of Divine Justice or a chastisement from Divine Justice. War may be either a crusade or a curse; either a token of man’s love of God or the fruit of man’s godlessness. The prophets like James later on, blame the wars on their forgetfulness of God. Then, as if writing for our times, when nations which boast they are defending religion seek to enter into pacts with anti-religious governments the prophets thunder: ‘Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses and putting their confidence in chariots, and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel and have not sought after the Lord’ (Isaias 31). War is evil like a disease. A disease may be due either to external causes such as the attack of a germ from the outside, or to internal causes. As the drunkards disturbs his equilibrium and vision by violating the law of nature, so too do nations, by violating the laws of natures God, produce out of their own bosom that disturbance of international equilibrium we call war.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Whence Come Wars)