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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
** H. W. Longfellow
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Can soldiers be saints? From the archive, three authors reflect on the ecumenical tradition of meritorious warmaking, the licitness of limited strikes and air power, and the Iraq War.
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FROM THE OCTOBER 2001 ISSUE
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** DARRELL COLE
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Despite the dominant view of war as something inherently ignoble and incompatible with Christian living, most Christians still approve of wars from time to time, deeming them “necessary evils.”
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FROM JULY 2025
** Is Just War Theory Still Relevant? ([link removed])
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** RICHARD CASSLEMAN
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When any tradition or system is forced to adapt to emerging circumstances, we must be clear about the essentials. At the heart of just war is nothing other than the establishment of justice.
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FROM THE APRIL 2006 ISSUE
** Iraq: Then & Now ([link removed])
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** GEORGE WEIGEL
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There were multiple and mutually reinforcing rationales for making the moral judgment that the removal of Saddam Hussein and his regime satisfied a developed version of the war-decision criterion of “just cause.”
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