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War is justified only to confront grave evil, its harm must not exceed the evil it seeks to end, and there must be a real chance of success, with all alternatives to war exhausted, the catechism says.
Time will tell if Trump’s action proves to be a political and strategic success. Meanwhile, experts in the Catholic principles of just war maintain that the moral and ethical justification for using military force is weak.
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The claim that ‘there is no just thing as a just war’ is dangerous nonsense.
This is not the first time the Israeli embassy to the Holy See, led by outgoing ambassador Raphael Schutz, has criticized Catholic leaders’ statements on the war.
“Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. … For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.” (CCC 2265)
EDITORIAL: The human cost of potential hostilities cannot be measured.
As the tensions deepen, moral theologians explain the well-established part of Church teaching and thought.
On Tuesday the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was stormed by a crowd of thousands of protesters and Iran’s head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, Qasem Suleimani was alleged to have been behind the attacks.
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