Is it Catholic to reject bloodshed and embrace mercy?
Yes, for Jesus taught us to love our enemies and Pope Benedict XVI taught us that “love of one’s enemy is the nucleus of the Christian revolution”. In Scripture, Tradition, History, Theology, and Philosophy, Catholics are taught to renounce bloodshed as peacemakers of prayer, mercy, and justice. All the Apostles died as unarmed models of Christ, except for Saint John, whose vision of the Apocalypse presents the power of Christ flowing not from the blood of the sword, but from blood of the Lamb.
