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Ukraine will keep fighting the good fight

October 10, 2022

The Catholic principles of the just war are as valid today as ever they were, so it was heartening that the pope has reiterated their importance. In a conversation with journalists following his trip to Kazakhstan, he declared that the purchase of weapons can be “morally acceptable if done under the conditions of morality”. Those

Pope says marriage can only be between a man and a woman and ‘we cannot change it’

September 03, 2017

Francis discusses Amoris Laetitia, money, just war and psychoanalysis in new book-length interview

The lesson of Chilcot: we need just war theory more than ever

July 07, 2016

It is only thanks to just war theory that we can articulate why the invasion was immoral

Why we still need just war theory

April 28, 2016

Campaigners are urging the Vatican to abandon the tradition. They don’t realise how much it has already evolved

Plus: Charles Guthrie on the perils of pacifism

Just war theory should be abandoned, says conference hosted by Vatican

April 15, 2016

Conference attendees called for a new way of thinking 'consistent with Gospel nonviolence'

Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/04/16

April 15, 2016

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