In an ever-more globalized economy, a few chokepoints in international trade have become the keys to influencing global politics

What is war? When can going to war be an act of love? And when does refusal to go to war constitute a sin, if ever?

For the sake of a more peaceful Middle East, the Lebanese Armed Forces must reclaim Lebanon from Hezbollah

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

The idea of a civilization can be used to bind disparate peoples into a shared political project. But in Iran, Turkey, India, and China, civilizational rhetoric increasingly serves to marginalize religious minorities.

Those of us with personal ties to the Middle East know firsthand that Iran’s apocalyptic, fanatical regime has spent decades sowing chaos across the region, with nuclear weapons serving only to make the situation potentially much worse

Objections to the Iran war that hinge on the absence of an immediate and certain threat overlook that the Islamic Republic has, through decades of proxy warfare and its pursuit of nuclear weapons, consistently sought to kill Americans and destabilize the Middle East

Contra Fr. Gerald Murray’s recent article in The Free Press, neither Iran’s potential acquisition of nuclear weapons nor its past proxy warfare justifies a full-scale war today.

Christians can disagree with Pope Leo’s prudential judgment about the Iran war while also appreciating his insistence on preaching the gospel, graciousness in the face of insults, and sincere concern for all who suffer from violence