What does it mean, concretely, to be peacemakers?
War and Peace
Posted inFaith in Focus
The demanding witness of Dan Berrigan in a world at war
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., died 10 years ago today. The state is no less war-ridden, no less bloodshot. Maybe more so. What are we to do?
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King Charles invokes faith, ‘shared values’ as he calls for peace in address to Congress
King Charles III appealed to the Christian faith and invoked “shared values” between the United Kingdom and the United States as he called for peace around the globe during an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress April 28.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
The poets, priests and politicians of Ireland’s Easter Rising, 110 years later
110 years after the Easter Rising, Ireland’s history and literature of resistance still inspire.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Cardinal McElroy: Why the Catholic Church can and should judge the morality of the Iran war
The exclusion of the church from any substantive role in evaluating the moral legitimacy of decisions to go to war is a pathway to amoral decisions on war, not moral ones.
Posted inFaith and Reason
What Pope Leo’s critics get wrong about Augustine and just war doctrine
The priority of peace fundamentally grounds Augustine’s just war theory. Pacifism is not incidental but essential to it.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Asked about regime change in Iran, Pope Leo says, ‘I cannot be in favor of war.’
“The question is not whether there is regime change or no regime change; the question is how to promote the values in which we believe without the death of so many innocent people.”
Posted inDispatches
How to justly conduct an unjust war? Catholic scholars weigh in on Iran
Nine leading Catholic scholars give their take on what duties just war theory requires of the United States at this stage of its conflict with Iran.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo: I am ‘not trying to debate the president’
Some journalists have sought to interpret Leo’s statements in Africa in an anti-Trump light, even though they were all written many days before the president made his statement on social media.
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US bishops’ doctrine chair defends church’s just war tradition after JD Vance comments
Shortly after Vice President JD Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to “be careful” when speaking about theology and taking issue with his description of the U.S. conflict in Iran as unjust, the U.S. bishops’ point-man on doctrine issued a forceful statement on the Church’s teaching about just war theory.