Richard Cassleman

Feb 12, 2024 | firstthings.com | Richard Cassleman |Matthew Schmitz |Kerri Christopher |Liel Leibovitz

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Feb 12, 2024 | firstthings.com | Richard Cassleman

Pope Francis has denounced capital punishment in recent years, and responses from concerned Catholics have focused largely on whether the Holy Father’s words represent a faithful account of the Church’s fundamental teaching. Amid this debate, most have overlooked the fact that Francis’s approach undermines one of the Church’s most important contributions to public life: just war doctrine. Francis has pondered whether any war or execution can ever be just.

Jun 9, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Richard Cassleman

1 Paul Weithman, “Augustine’s Political Philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. Eleonore Stump (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 234. 2 Michael Bruno, Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought, (Fortress Press, 2013). 3 Augustine, The City of God, Book V Ch. 18. (All translations from this text are from R.W. Dyson’s Cambridge ed. 1998 unless otherwise noted).