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 ...

Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in partnership with Catholic University’s Institute for Human Ecology.

Christians do not need to be pacifists to question Trump’s war against Iran.

Explore the complexities of Just War Theory through the lens of the Iraq War. Is war ever justified, and how could we tell if it were? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we tackle Just ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...

In his 17th century book “Leviathan,” English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described life as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” This describes the state of nature of which humans are a part.

The Catholic bishop of Arkansas said in a post on social media this week that he has "deep concerns" that the attack by the U.S. and Israel on Iran does not fit the definition of a "just war" as ...

The concept of just war, which has guided Catholic teaching on war and peace since the fourth century, has become "devalued as a moral instrument" due to its application in modern conflicts, said ...

As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he rode not a war horse but a lowly donkey, coming as a servant Messiah, not a ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...