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From Augustine to Auschwitz: Why Just War Still Matters

Sgt. Justin A. Moeller
A U.S. soldier with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division provides security during a battle drill at Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2013.

Responding to Pope Leo’s encyclical, patristics scholar Professor John Rist argues that history, from Rome’s fall to the Second World War, shows the necessity of moral clarity in war.

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