Gathered in Rome for this year’s June consistory, cardinals tackled a delicate theme raised by Pope Leo XIV in his encyclical: Questioning “just war” theory.
The theory of a “just war” was one of the subjects Pope Leo XIV had explicitly asked to put on the agenda for the cardinals he gathered at the Vatican a wee ago. This traditional doctrine, mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is defined by precise elements. The Catholic Church judges the moral legitimacy of war by a number of criteria, including proportionality, necessity, the guarantee of success, and the
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