"Just War 101"
Bishop Conley on just war doctrine: "One could make [a] consequentialist, utilitarian argument... But Catholics cannot accept such arguments. There are certain standards for which we stand, regardless of consequences. Period." https://t.co/rAxvCp4uwE — Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) May 11, 2026 Edward Feser recommends an essay at the National Catholic Register by Bishop of Lincoln, NE James Conley, Just War 101: Catholic Teaching for a Dangerous Moment . It claims to be a review of Catholic "Just War doctrine", but its statement of this doctrine, even as it cites the Catechism, is seriously incomplete, and I think it also has several problems of both focus and logic. Let's take the biggest problem of logic first. He cites the case of Father George Zabelka, "a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Air Force [who] served as a priest for the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki." In August of 1945, he was called upon to ...