Ireland’s long tradition of military neutrality is being tested by Russia and by the Trump administration’s shaky support for NATO.
Tobias Winright
Tobias Winright is a professor of moral theology at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland, and an associate member of Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University. Among his books are Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing (2020) and the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics (2021).
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Cops—and ICE—need to stop wearing masks
Masked police undermine trust and amplify fear. They do not fit a democratic society.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Defend or defund the police? It’s more complicated than that.
Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who has volunteered as a reserve officer for the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, takes us behind the scenes of urban policing in her new book.
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Pope Francis may be our last hope for stopping war in Ukraine
Just war principles do not require Western nations to practice pacifism or ignore Russian aggression in Ukraine. But they may still guide nations to a nonviolent resolution, and Pope Francis can help.
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‘Defund the police’ hits a wall of reality in major U.S. cities
Calls to “defund“ the police gained traction during last year‘s protests against racial injustice, writes Tobias Winright, but cities like New York are now taking a more careful look at public safety.
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Don’t abolish the police. Reimagine law enforcement.
Law enforcement in the United States has been tainted by racism, writes Tobias Winright, but we can reimagine and cultivate a new culture of ”just policing.”
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Review: The unhealthy state of U.S. health care
The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.
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Pope Francis on capital punishment: a closer look
Did Pope Francis depart from Scripture and tradition in declaring the death penalty “inadmissible”? Or was his declaration rooted deeply in both?
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An open letter to ICE from a former law enforcement officer
I humbly exhort you to listen to and follow your conscience during these stormy times.
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What St. John XXIII has to say about gun rights
In the wake of repeated mass shootings, most recently at a school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, many of us are asking what resources are available to educators to address questions of gun violence and gun control. In my experience teaching social ethics, I have found that Pope John XXIII’s social encyclical “Pacem in […]