Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News / Source: Anadolu, Getty Images Even as modern warfare becomes more technologically advanced, with ...

Top Republicans have invoked a centuries-old moral doctrine to defend the ongoing war against Iran. Last week, Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson — first and second in the ...

Top Republicans have invoked a centuries-old moral doctrine to defend the ongoing war against Iran. Last week, Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson — first and second in the ...

(RNS) — One of the most important aspects of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence is his seeming rejection of “just war” theory. “Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right ...

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas primarily deals with artificial intelligence in the context of human dignity, but one particular passage also addresses the topic of “just war theory” ...

Vatican City — Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (RNS) — The pope touched on ‘just war’ theory, the war in Ukraine, the soccer World Cup and even Bad Bunny during the papal flight taking him to Madrid. ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE ...

To many people, the term “just war” distinctly rings of an oxymoron. One might wonder, how can the lethal violence unleashed in war ever be just? Yet, realpolitik underscores that not all ...

This tradition still speaks the language of virtue, a tongue our society has largely lost. One evening, when I was 13, I came in from outside to find my parents watching TV. The screen was dotted with ...

Even as modern warfare becomes more technologically advanced, with the U.S. military employing drones and artificial intelligence in Iran, an ethical framework that dates to the fifth century is still ...