Thursday, April 21, 2005

New Pope a Strong Critic of Modern War

Somebody should probably inform the Whig Thomists of this fact.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

“All I can do is invite you to read the Catechism, and the conclusion seems obvious to me…” The conclusion was one he gave many times: "the concept of preventive war does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church."

I think that when Michael Novak went to Rome to defend the invasion of Iraq, he didn't argue that it was a preventive war, but a war justified because Iraq broke the UN resolutions that followed the first gulf war.

Fr. D.L. Jones said...

Read Weigel and Neuhaus in FIRST THINGS. Weigel argued for a development of doctrine on Just War about exactly this topic.