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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, May 29th, 2019. This week on the Cat of Sprout's podcast, we are talking about war. Now, we have already talked about the two types of anger that can lead to war. The first one is a just anger that responds to evil and motivates us to do

something about that evil. The other one is a sinful type of anger that is concerned only with

revenge and oftentimes seeks to hurt someone else to an extreme. That sort of anger should never lead to war. Yesterday we started

talking about the basics of war, things that our leaders need to consider while they are

thinking about the possibility of war. And these things were that war needs to lead to peace

and also that it can be incredibly hard to

predict if war will lead to peace or the underlying issues that might go along with the evil

we are witnessing.

Today we're going to go through how our church, the Catholic Church, defines a just war.

Now, a just war means simply a necessary war, a war that our church and our faith sees as necessary.

Now, it's important that we say necessary.

War is never good.

In fact, the catechism talks about war as an evil.

In fact, killing or hurting or using any sort of force is the least ideal for thing for us to do. We should only choose war when there are no other options. So let's go through the points that the catechism provides for what needs to be

in place for a war to be just. The first one is that the damage must be

grave, certain. Grave and certain. Now, grave means that it is terrible damage, damage to human life,

damage to cities and nations, and also it must be certain. We can't just think, well,

I think that this country is going to attack. It's probably going to happen. It needs to be

certain. Something that we have proof actually is going to happen before we do something or enter into war.

The next one is that there needs to be no other options for eliminating the evil.

Now, if there is a way to talk to another nation, a lot of times we try to negotiate or send a peacekeeping mission into a

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