Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
As students began filing into the classroom for my seminar yesterday, one young man remarked: “This class is getting more relevant every day.” The topic of the seminar is just-war theory. He was referring, of course, to the outrageous assault by Hama on Israel.
“There is no such thing as a just war; they do not exist,” Pope Francis said in March of last year. But for centuries Catholic prelates and theologians thought otherwise; the just-war tradition is firmly rooted in Catholic theology. Even Pope Francis himself, in the wake of the Hamas atrocities, conceded Israel’s right to respond, saying “it is the right of those who are attacked to defend themselves.” Report is here.
