Despite Pope Leo’s words in Magnifica Humanitas, just war theory will remain necessary so long as human beings are sinful, tyrants exist, and evil regimes oppress their own people while threatening the international order

Editor James Diddams is joined by PCA pastor James Baird, author of “King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government” to discuss the big question: should government promote Christianity as the only true religion?

Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, conspicuously fails to reference the theological anthropology articulated by Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, a lacuna which, purposefully or not, surrenders too much to the present zeitgeist

Christians are not mandated to support President Trump. At the same time, that his behavior is at times offensive does not automatically mean they must oppose him either. Neither captures the prudence required of politically-engaged Christians.

A Christian realist approach to Israel rejects both sentimental Zionism and abolitionist moralism. The Jewish state may be criticized, restrained, and judged, but not denied the ordinary legitimacy granted to other nations.

The cleansing of the temple reveals the character of our Messiah and is a model for those who would follow him.

While the Vatican’s calls for peace in the Middle East are understandable, its failure to articulate the moral asymmetry between Iran, China, and Russia on one hand and the U.S., Ukraine, and Israel on the other is deeply disappointing

In Exodus, God spoke through the oracles of Urim and Thummim. Today, we risk treating AI as a similar black box: something from which information proceeds, but whose source cannot be known

When King Charles visited the Vatican and met Pope Leo in October, it was the first time since the Reformation that a King of England had prayed with the head of the Roman Catholic Church