US military archbishop says Iran conflict does not meet ‘just war’ standard Catholic Timothy Broglio says ‘hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @silvermansecurity.bsky.social @jricole.bsky.social @johngcole.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social #ArchbishopTimothyBroglio sides with #PopeLeoXIV The #Iran Debacle is NOT a #JustWar

Good if distressing read. Great to see @julieingersoll.bsky.social get some attention for her relevant work! #ChristianNationalism #Reconstructionism #JustWar

Just Causes? One of the central criterion of the Just War theory is that a just war must have a Just Cause.

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Essay: Cardinal Robert McElroy explained best why the Iran war is immoral - Sight Magazine US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says that just because the US' adversaries use unjust means does not justify doing the same...

Essay: Cardinal Robert McElroy explained best why the Iran war is immoral. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #CardinalRobertMcElroy #Iranwar #Iran #US #Israel #justwar #CatholicChurch

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Frank Brennan on the fog of war As conflict spreads across the Middle East, the moral test of war returns to first principles – legality, justification and the danger of acting in blindness.

Preventative war risks removing all limits on the use of force. Drawing on just war teaching and the Gospel story of sight and blindness, Frank Brennan says the current conflict with Iran fails the moral test.
#auspol #MiddleEast #JustWar

War should never be easy. Terrance Carroll on the deep Christian reflection required before engaging in conflict. #JustWar #FaithfulWitness #socialjustice #theology #moralphilosophy

#JustWar #Ethics #MilitaryEthics #MilitaryHonor #Profession

Preemption versus Prevention With the U.S.

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Sadly, this is an opportune time to question whether even #justwar theory applies in the contemporary context. Modern munitions weren't on the horizon in the Middle Ages.

Hey guys.
The war objectives are due BEFORE you start the war.
#PublicDeclaration #jusadbellum #JustWar

Ethics of bombing military targets near civilians Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Does Claude "think" differently about military ethics when we vary the descriptions of houses of worship that might be destroyed in an attack? Initial prompts suggest 'yes' but I can't rule out the possibility this is an order effect

#justwar #aiethics #anthropic

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Positive Peace If William James is right, then the absence of war isn’t really peace; it is only time used to prepare for the next war.

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“Just War and other lies we tell ourselves”: A Riff My friend @_MikeDenny was riffing this morning on possible titles for inconvenient (read controversial and potentially unpopular) think pieces related to foreign policy and military matters and the…

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From way back! #JustWar

The Ethics of Intervention in Iran James Pattison criticises the humanitarian intervention rhetoric used to justify the recent US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

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The Villanelle felt like the right tone — somber. But the sonnet begged for a punchline acknowledging Thomas Aquinas’ treatise on Just War from Summa Theologica (II-II, Q. 40).

Either way…this timeline we’re in is dumb, disappointing and confounding.
#war #justwar #iran #thomasaquinas

Essay: Is Trump's fight against Iran a just war? - Sight Magazine US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says that Christians do not need to be pacifists to question Trump’s war against Iran...

Essay: Is Trump’s fight against Iran a just war? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Iran #Iranwar #US #Israel #DonaldTrump #justwar #defensivewars #offensivewars #Irannuclearprogram #USCongress

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The Complete Table Twenty-five Largest Resistance Campaigns, 1900-2006

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I had to punch you because my friend was about to punch you and you might have punched back and hit me by accident.
#JustWar

#JustWar #MilitaryEthics #MoralInjury

And trying to backfill this after you have started the war is not moral deliberation and doesn't make for a #JustWar. That's propaganda.
(Looking at you, cable news)

Never mind the rest of the #JustWar list.

#JustWar #jusadbellum #jusadvim

Not #JustWar....

And a violation of #JustWar and #Ethics.

Not #JustWar #MilitaryEthics and as your ethicist its my job to keep saying so. For the person who is trying to do the right thing and needs support. #Profession

#MilitaryEthics #JustWar #Profession

Methods of Nonviolence Nonviolence includes a wide variety of methods.

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The Myths of Nonviolence With the brief summary of nonviolence out of the way, it might be obvious how to respond to many of the myths mentioned earlier.

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Supreme Emergency The other attempt to carve out an exception to noncombatant immunity is one of Supreme Emergency.

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Doctrine of Double Effect The jus in bello principles may sound straightforward, but everyone knows civilians die in war.

Another installment of my Peace and War Substack. I hope you find it of interest.

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