#526 Wars and Rumors of Wars - Joseph Capizzi, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Given the hyper- destructive nature of modern warfare, and the frequency of modern military engagements, can a Christian still accept the Just War thinking of earlier ages? Would Jesus? We asked theologian Joseph Capizzi, dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Catholic University of America. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for the living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. Maybe one of the challenges to understanding and defending our faith right now is modern warfare. What exactly is the church’s position here? How are …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic answers podcast for living understanding and
0:09.9	defending your Catholic faith maybe one of the challenges to understanding
0:14.4	and defending our faith right now is modern warfare.
0:18.0	What exactly is the church's position here?
0:20.1	How are we to speak and think and live as Catholics in a world that is so
0:25.1	occupied with warfare? We have a wonderful guest to help us talk about that today.
0:30.0	Dr Joseph Kapizi is professor of moral theology and dean of the School of Theology
0:35.1	and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America.
0:37.8	He's the author of Politics, Justice and War, Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare
0:42.2	from the Oxford University press.
0:44.2	Professor Kapizi, thanks for being here with us.
0:46.4	My pleasure.
0:47.9	Have you been noticing that we have a lot of wars
0:50.3	in the modern world?
0:51.8	Yes, I have noticed that.
0:53.1	I'm not sure it's qualitatively different
0:55.0	than it's been in the past, but yeah,
0:57.8	things are in turmoil across the globe right now.
1:01.6	Well, yeah, and so the the
1:05.0	one encounter with Jesus is an encounter with the prince of peace,
1:11.0	one who laid down his life for others.
1:15.0	And so there's an immediate kind of intellectual problem with war.
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