Just War Tradition and the Popes: From Pius X to Francis

In: Revista brasileira de estudos de defesa: RBED, Band 3, Heft 1

Abstract

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.