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ROME – When a new government under President-elect Gustavo Petro takes office in Colombia August 7, the Catholic Church will be a key institution in fulfilling one of his goals: Negotiating a peace deal with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla movement, which has been terrorizing the country since the […]
Read More“I believe it is time to rethink the concept of a ‘just war’,” Pope Francis said. “A war may be just, there is the right to defend oneself.”
Read MoreIn 1845, President James K. Polk sent diplomat John Slidell to Mexico City to offer $30 million for New Mexico, California, and other territories north of the Rio Grande. Mexico refused the offer. A frustrated […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, just war, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
U.S. President Joe Biden minced no words calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher” who should no longer be in power. Pope Francis has refused to condemn Putin by name.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2022 | Gaudium et spes, just war, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul I, Russia, St. Augustine, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Vatican II, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Every war is a defeat for humanity, because men and women endowed with reason should be able to resolve their differences without mass violence. Reason, however, can be corrupted by ignorance, passion, ideology, pride, and […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | "Russian World", 2022, Cardinal Manning: “All human conflict is ultimately theological.”, Cardinal Newman, Columns, dialogue is not always the answer, Great Schism (1054), John 17:21, just war, News, Orthodox Christianity, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Robert Royal, Russian Orthodox Church, Russkiy Mir, Soviet Union, The Catholic Thing, Ukraine "Holy War", Ukrainian resistance, Ut Unum Sint of John Paul II | 0 |
Robert Royal: Given Kirill’s unholy compromises with Putin, cAN Moscow be part of Christian dialogue? Will Russian Orthodoxy hold together?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, Church in Europe, just war, News, Pax Christi, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
CNN is reporting that Russia is relying more heavily on “so-called ‘dumb’ bombs than on its arsenal of precision-guided munitions” in its war on Ukraine, adding, “These indiscriminate weapons kill scores of civilians.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, DePaul University, diocese of Nashville, just war, News, Nonviolence, Pope Francis, Violence | 0 |
Mary Jo Greil had it all, as they say, in the early 1990s, working in a successful career at a Fortune 50 corporation in Memphis, Tennessee, helping the company grow and build its profile.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2021 | AUMF, Grenada, just war, Korea, News, Picks, U.S. & World News, Vietnam, World War II | 0 |
The United States last declared war nearly 80 years ago in the conflict known as World War II. Afterward, there were several wars fought that weren’t declared as such.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 27, 2021 | Afghanistan, Interviews, just war, justice and peace, lead, News, U.S. Military | 0 |
Michael J. Baxter teaches Religious Studies and directs the Catholic Studies Program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 29, 2021 | Books, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, just war, News, Papal books, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Modern popes have been clear voices for peace, but Pope Francis is moving closer to a broad embrace of nonviolence and a declaration that modern warfare is so deadly and sophisticated that the traditional “just war” theories cannot apply.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2020 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Fratelli Tutti, just war, News, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis’s teaching on the “just war” theory is a crucial point of reflection in today’s world where the historic motives to morally justify aggression and violence are often misused, said Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican’s Migrants and Refugees Section.
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