If one is concerned about the possibility of unjust violence or prohibiting [a just] war with little chance of success, then one might have an argument against secession. But for the sake of the "common good"? A misapplication of the concept that only strengthens the hand of the centralizers.
The Holy Father distinguished between "independence for emancipation” and “independence for secession,” giving the former Yugoslavia as an example of the former “where there are peoples and cultures so diverse that they are completely unconnected.”
As for the situations in Catalonia, northern Italy, and Scotland, Pope Francis said “they should be studied on a case-by-case basis.”
“There will be some cases that are just and some that are unjust, but the secession of a nation that hasn’t been previously forced together is an issue that must be taken up with tweezers,” he said.
Even if consolidation was accomplished mostly peacefully (through the consolidation of kingdoms, in which the ruled had no say) that does not mean that consolidation itself was just to begin with. And one must also remember the destruction of local cultures that happened as a result, with the language and culture of those ruling being privileged above all others and even imposed on the rest.
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