Open AccessJust War Tradition and the Popes: From Pius X to Francis
Author(s) -
Pedro Erik Carneiro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista brasileira de estudos de defesa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2358-3932
pISSN - 2358-3916
DOI - 10.26792/rbed.v3n1.2016.61708
Subject(s) - contradiction , history , spanish civil war , first world war , classics , philosophy , theology , ancient history , archaeology , epistemology
Which are the ways of knowing, understanding and justifying war by the Popes since the twentieth century? The Catholic Church has a long tradition to determine the need of wars, called the Christian just war founded by St. Augustine. Since the twentieth century, however, the popes have showed hesitation, contradiction and negligence towards just war approach.