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.
Catholic Social Teaching
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What A.I. has to do with poverty and human dignity
How can we in the church ensure that the voices of the most vulnerable remain at the center of discussions about artificial intelligence?
Posted inShort Take
Dear JD Vance: The Iran war is very much Pope Leo’s business.
JD Vance appears to see delighting in death and making genocidal threats as not matters of morality—and thus something the pope should just keep quiet about.
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Money, ideology and polarization: Why the Catholic Church blesses social justice
This week on “Jesuitical,” a roundtable on President Trump’s broadside against Pope Leo, plus John Carr on his decades of work spreading Catholic social teaching
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Does just war theory justify the Iran war? Catholic voices debate
At Regis High School’s inaugural Deo et Patriae Dialogue, alumni Phil Klay and Father Gerald Murray advanced opposing positions on what Catholic social teaching tells us about the war in Iran.
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Acts of service on display: The Catholic Charities People of Hope Museum shows neighbors helping neighbors
The Catholic Charities People of Hope Museum made its debut on March 26 in New York City, kicking off a three-year travel schedule that will take the museum to locations all across the United States. The project, funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, aims to engage in “immersive storytelling” that shares stories of “neighbors helping neighbors.”
Posted inShort Take
The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church
On issue after issue, the U.S. government has contradicted recent Catholic teaching—and not subtly, but by flaunting its acts of opposition.
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I ran as a pro-life Democrat and lost—but my neighbors gave me hope for our divided nation.
The openness of pro-choice voters to find common ground with pro-life Democrats like myself belies the black-and-white picture that the national party promotes.
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Trump calls D.E.I. ‘immoral.’ Catholic teaching disagrees.
While Donald Trump’s executive orders claim to defend civil rights through “colorblind” neutrality, his rhetoric exposes what this supposed neutrality protects: not equality, but an unjust racial status quo.
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Catholic Charities president: How service can become a habit
The government shutdown led to increased awareness about the unacceptable level of hunger in America. That awareness has led to action.