Tag: just war
COVID 19, Shelter-in-place, and Just War Reasoning
This is a guest post by Matthew J. Gaudet, Ph.D. Lecturer of Ethics, School of...
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Statement by Ethicists in the Wake of the January 3rd and 8th Military Actions between the United States and Iran
(Earlier this month, the United States and Iran appeared to be on the brink of war. Some say that...
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Does Just War Theory Have a Future in Catholic Social Thought?
The following is a guest post by Bernard G. Prusak about the latest special issue of Expositions,...
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An Ethical “No” to a US Military First Strike on North Korea
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King, Jr. made this...
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A Statement from Christian Ethicists on Preventive War and the North Korea Crisis
Responding to the growing nuclear threat from North Korea, President Donald Trump’s administration...
Read MoreThe Vatican on Military Intervention in Defense of the Innocent
A number of my friends and acquaintances on Facebook this week have expressed their surprise, given Pope Francis’s record of making statements very critical of war (as in connection with Syria a year ago), and given the...
Read MoreOn Gaza: If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
On July 24 at the Catholic Social Thought, Politics, and the Public Square page on Facebook, Jackie Turvey Tait asked if any Catholic moral theologians who are conversant with just war theory would comment on the current...
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The Grace of Doing Something in Syria
On Sunday, September 1st, Pope Francis called for a Day of Prayer and Fasting on Saturday,...
Read MoreThe Medal of Honor’s Recurrent Challenge to the Just War Status Quo
The Servant of God Fr. Emil Kapuan was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor today by President Obama, making him the fifth Catholic chaplain to receive this award, the highest military honor given by the US government. Fr....
Read MoreSometimes Just-War People Also Have to Watch the Innocent Suffer
In recent weeks many people, including students, have asked me what I think about armed intervention in Syria. I must confess that the deaths of the Syrian people at the hands of their government’s troops (UN estimates are...
Read MoreDialing 911 on 9/11
Over at my other blogging “home” at the journal Political Theology’s There Is Power in the Blog, I posted the following brief reflection as the first contribution to a series this week on Ten Years after 9/11:...
Read MoreFranz Jägerstätter & Following One’s Conscience in War
My friend, John Donaghy, who used to do campus ministry at Iowa State University and now is a lay missioner with the Catholic diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, reminds us that on this date in 1943 “Blessed Franz...
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