
When Is War Justified? A Catholic Perspective | Prof. Joseph Capizzi
The Thomistic Institute
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Can a Christian Lawfully Fight in and Wage War?
One of the great spanish alas, theologians are wonderful tradition, francisco de vitoria, asked in his lexion, the law of war, may a christian lawfully fight in and wage war? So this is where you're seeing the question a little bit more casuistically. And he looks to aquinas he's in the temistic tradition, he looks to Aquinas who's glossing romans 13. For it is lawful to draw the sor use weapons against evil doers and sadicious subjects within the commonwealth, okay? This is domestic. Just as it is unlawful to use that sord in your discreet, political community for the purposes of punishing those who
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