Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty-five years ago, I was a senior at the University of Notre Dame, and a Navy ROTC midshipman. In the first week of that ...

When Pope Leo took heat from Donald Trump and the MAGA movement for denouncing the war in Iran earlier this year, much of his ...

AI generated image exploring “just war” concepts, juxtaposing Christian theory with Indian concepts of “dharma yuddha”, ahimsa and pacifism. Amid the feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV, ...

This tradition still speaks the language of virtue, a tongue our society has largely lost. One evening, when I was 13, I came in from outside to find my parents watching TV. The screen was dotted with ...

VATICAN CITY—President Trump, who said God supports U.S. military operations against Iran, has fulminated against Pope Leo XIV’s antiwar stance. Vice President JD Vance has even told the pope to be ...

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When President Trump and G.O.P. leaders denounced the pope’s comments about the U.S. attack on Iran, they touched off a religious debate over what is and isn’t a “just war.” By Elizabeth Dias ...

The venerable theological tradition makes war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient—and that’s the point. Once upon a time I was a pacifist, and some days I still am. Although I’m a theologian ...

Pope Leo XIV has made it clear that the U.S. war on Iran does not, in his judgment, meet the criteria of just war doctrine. Timothy Broglio, archbishop for the U.S. Military Services, has said the ...

The “just war doctrine” has unexpectedly emerged as a point of contention in American political discourse. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event on April 14, Vice President J.D. Vance invoked what he ...

Thirty-five years ago, I was a senior at the University of Notre Dame, and a Navy ROTC midshipman. In the first week of that second semester, on Jan,. 17, 1991, the air war started started in ...