Rome, Italy, Jan 26, 2017 / 17:19 pm
The secretary general of the Italian bishops conference on Thursday said that torture can never be a response to terrorism, shortly after United States president Donald Trump condoned the idea.
"I realize that any response in this case seems banal; that is, torture annuls the negative, very negative impact of terrorism," Bishop Nunzio Galantino, Bishop Emeritus of Cassano all'Jonio, told reporters Jan. 26.
"I don't think terrorism is overcome with another form of terrorism, because in the end torture becomes this."
Bishop Galantino was speaking to journalists in Rome at the conclusion of the Italian bishops' permanent council meeting.