Just war doctrine and moral certainty
In an article at First Things, I show that the standard view in the Catholic just war tradition is that for a war to be just, it is not enough that it be merely arguable or even pr...
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In an article at First Things, I show that the standard view in the Catholic just war tradition is that for a war to be just, it is not enough that it be merely arguable or even pr...
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This week's wild news cycle was a church and politics mash-up with no clear winners. But one dark horse was the Catholic Church's just war theory.
"The church urges governments to exhaust every other possible means before going to war and before using force to achieve a noble end," said the chair of the U.S. Conference of Cat...
By Andrea Tornielli, Vatican News. Faced with the destructive power of modern weapons, it is very difficult to speak, as was done in past centuries, of the possibility of a ‘just w...
By Edward Feser, First Things. Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the U.S. war on Iran does not, in his judgment, meet the criteria of just war doctrine. Timothy Broglio, archbish...
The Leo Chronicles: Brother Leo and Pope Leo discuss what makes a just war or a failure of peace.
A growing choir of Catholic voices has criticized the Iran conflict by invoking the concept of "just war" – an evolving tradition that has guided Christian thinking about war and p...
Richard Cassleman, First Things Just war is again being discussed in the public square by policymakers and prelates alike. Recently, the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Doctr...
In a recent article at First Things, I argued that the just war tradition holds that for a war to be justifiable, it must be morally certain that it meets just war conditions (not...
Pope Leo has issued an encyclical in which he state that “just war” theory is no longer valid: “Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the stricte...
Edward Feser, First Things Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the U.S. war on Iran does not, in his judgment, meet the criteria of just war doctrine. Timothy Broglio, archbishop...
War is hell. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman By Dr. Jim Ferguson I am g...
Christian just war reasoning has long treated humanitarian limits as essential criteria for ...
Análisis por Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Un resultado interesante de la extraña y, en gran medida, unilateral disputa del presidente Donald Trump con el papa es que existe cierto debate —...
Análisis por Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Un resultado interesante de la extraña y, en gran medida, unilateral disputa del presidente Donald Trump con el papa es que existe cierto debate —...
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Leading scholar explains just war theory and the Iran war. An assessment of the Trump administration's response to the Catholic Church. The post A Primer on Just War Theory and the...
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Henry Long, Providence The Iran war has sparked a renewed interest in and debate about the otherwise obscure concept of just war theory. This debate has been concentrated among Ch...
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, told CBS' Ed O'Keefe that the war is likely not justified under the Just War Theory.
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