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COMMENTARY: The recent argument during Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House raises an important question of what the Church teaches with regard to diplomatic efforts to achieve peace between nations.
COMMENTARY: The actions that led to the end of the 32-year reign of the leader of Hezbollah have particular relevance in Buenos Aires.
COMMMENTARY: Recent papal statements are best understood as a passionate appeal for an end to violence, not a rejection of the long Catholic tradition on war and peace.
REGISTER ROUNDTABLE: V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Philpott and R.R. Reno Assess How Church Teaching Applies to the Crisis in the Holy Land
COMMENTARY: In the fog of war, the light of the Gospel is needed more than ever.
Church teaching on the morality of war is based on a theory expounded by St. Augustine in the 4th century known as just war theory.
While some suggest that the Pope’s messaging is internally conflicted, others argue that the Holy Father’s statements both illuminate and are illumined by his broader teaching on war.
As the Taliban gained power throughout Afghanistan in the last several weeks concerns have been raised across the globe over the humanitarian crisis. Pope Francis is among the religious leaders, who have spoken up for the Afghani people, seeking to defend human rights and religious freedom under the country’s new Taliban rule. Register contributor Andrea Picciotti Bayer has written about the tragedy in Afghanistan at NCRegister.com and she, as well as Just War expert and former naval officer Msgr. Stuart Swetland, who has been a source for Register reports on the situation in Afghanistan, joins us today here on Register Radio.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: “The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.” (CCC 2309)
COMMENTARY: The visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was symbolic and a powerful call for peace. But its effect on nuclear policy around the world will be limited.
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