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When Is War Justified? A Catholic Perspective | Prof. Joseph Capizzi

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Are All Wars Unjust?

Most of us think, you know, the second world war was pretty clearly a kind of ritious war. And we think, well, that means all wars are unjust. This is not how the principal has operated in the western tradition. It's operating to guide action, political action, on action, by those who are responsible for the care of a community. So it's almost always going to be compromised, right? Because it's not mearly one act. It's countless numbers of acts that are subsumed under this analysis.

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