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From Augustine to Auschwitz: Why Just War Still Matters, by Edward Pentin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

From Augustine to Auschwitz: Why Just War Still Matters, by Edward Pentin

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A U.S. soldier with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division provides security during a battle drill at Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2013. (photo: Sgt. Justin A. Moeller / Public Domain)

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Responding to Pope Leo’s encyclical, patristics scholar Professor John Rist argues that history, from Rome’s fall to the Second World War, shows the necessity of moral clarity in war.

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas primarily deals with artificial intelligence in the context of human dignity, but one particular passage also addresses the topic of “just war theory” which the document describes as “outdated.”

“Too often,” Leo writes, just war theory has been used to “justify any kind of war” and fails to take account of the speed, destructiveness, and dehumanization of contemporary conflict. … 

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