Posts Tagged ‘just war’

March 1st, 2010

Catholics argue about waterboarding

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In the first New York Times Beliefs column since the departure of Peter Steinfels, Mark Oppenheimer discusses the outrage among Catholics across the political spectrum about Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen’s claim that waterboarding in the war on terror is permissible for Catholics.

December 15th, 2009

Obama, Christian realism, and Just War theory

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A round-up of some of the recent commentary on President Obama and the ethics of war, following the invocation of Just War theory during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.