#415 Just War and American Wars - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Apologist Joe Heschmeyer joins us to review Catholic Just War teaching, and spend some time discussing how that teaching applies to modern American wars. Cy Kellett: Is it still possible to have a just war in the modern world? Joe Heschmeyer is next. Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. War become more common in recent years than it was in the past. We thought maybe in the modern world, with the rise of the modern world, warfare would go out of vogue, but it cer…

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0:00.0	Is it still possible to have a just war in the modern world?
0:03.3	Joe Heschmeier is next.
0:09.8	Hello, and welcome to Focus,
0:11.2	the Catholic Answers podcast for living,
0:13.1	understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.
0:15.5	I'm Cikella at your host.
0:17.6	And war has become more common in recent years
0:25.2	than it was in the past.
0:27.0	We thought maybe in the modern world,
0:29.2	the rise of the modern world,
0:31.1	warfare would go out of vote, but it certainly has not.
0:34.6	And in some ways, perhaps,
0:37.1	we might ask ourselves this question anyways,
0:39.1	perhaps we have become comfortable with war
0:42.8	as a normal part of the discourse
0:46.0	between nations and the discourse
0:48.1	between nations and non-state actors.
0:50.8	But is it right for us to have so normalized war?
0:55.6	Maybe the church is just war.
0:57.3	Teaching has something to say about that.
0:59.6	So that's what we ask Joe Heschmeier.
1:01.0	He's the guy you ask when you got those kinds of questions.
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