Joseph E. Capizzi is a professor of moral theology and ethics and the executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He is the author of Politics, Justice, and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Joseph Capizzi spoke at Baylor University about Catholic political theology.
Joseph E. CapizziFebruary 16, 2022
At the Christianity and National Security Conference, Joseph Capizzi spoke about Catholic social teaching on the just war tradition.
Joseph E. CapizziNovember 19, 2021
Just war scholars and Christian ethicists address morality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Marc LiVecche & Joseph E. CapizziAugust 23, 2021
Joseph Capizzi of Catholic University in a recent article for Providence analyzed Pope Francis’s new encyclical Fratelli Tutti‘s seeming negative…
Mark Tooley & Joseph E. CapizziOctober 22, 2020
Mark Tooley speaks with contributing editors Rebeccah Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute and Joseph Capizzi of Catholic University about the…
Mark Tooley & Rebeccah Heinrichs & Joseph E. CapizziJuly 27, 2020
Joseph Capizzi, professor of moral theology and ethics and executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, spoke about how Catholics have approached government and statecraft.
Joseph E. CapizziMarch 6, 2020
In this short video, Joe Capizzi discusses how we should view our past and our future in light of Christian…
Joseph E. CapizziDecember 13, 2017
The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference. Joseph E. Capizzi discusses the nature of…
Joseph E. CapizziOctober 23, 2017
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