{"id":47157,"date":"2026-04-28T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/views-vary-among-prominent-u-s-catholic-clergy-on-just-war-pronouncements\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:39:00","slug":"views-vary-among-prominent-u-s-catholic-clergy-on-just-war-pronouncements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/views-vary-among-prominent-u-s-catholic-clergy-on-just-war-pronouncements\/","title":{"rendered":"Views vary among prominent U.S. Catholic clergy on \u2018just war\u2019 pronouncements"},"content":{"rendered":"

While various leading U.S. prelates<\/a> have taken the position that the U.S. war with Iran fails to meet the Church\u02bcs classic just war criteria, opinion on the matter is not unanimous.<\/p>\n

In recent days, one of the country\u02bcs most prominent bishops in the public arena, Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, contended that it\u02bcs not even the role of the Church\u02bcs leaders to make a final determination about whether a particular war is just or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role of the Church,\u201d Barron wrote in an X post<\/a> on April 20, \u201cis to call for peace and to urge that any conflict be strictly circumscribed by the moral constraints of the just war criteria,\u201d which is outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 2309<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, he continued, \u201cit is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust.\u201d To buttress his argument, Barron cited the catechism\u2019s explicit \u201cjust war\u201d doctrine teaching (No. 2309<\/a>) that \u201cthe evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, is the war in question truly the last resort?\u201d Barron asked, referencing just war criteria. \u201cIs there really a balance between the good to be attained and the destruction caused by the war? Are combatants and noncombatants being properly distinguished in the waging of the conflict? Do the belligerents have right intention? Is there a reasonable hope of success? The posing of those questions \u2014 indeed the insistence upon their moral relevance \u2014 belongs rightly to the Church, but the answering of them belongs to the civil authorities,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other clergy with significant public influence, such as Archdiocese of New York priest Father Gerald Murray, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, hold outright that the U.S. military action against Iran does qualify as a just war.<\/p>\n

In an extensive appraisal of the situation in the light of just war teaching, Murray wrote in The Free Press<\/a> that \u201cthe justice of the United States attack on Iran is confirmed by the Iranian regime\u2019s admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray cited U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff, who revealed<\/a> that in the days just prior to\u00a0the outbreak of the war \u201cboth Iranian negotiators said to us [Witkoff and fellow U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner] directly with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% [enriched uranium] and they\u2019re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.\u201d The Iranian negotiators told their U.S. counterparts, Witkoff continued, that \u201cthey had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA nuclear-armed Iran with ballistic missiles is an imminent threat to the United States, Israel, and many other countries,\u201d Murray said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe advanced state of uranium enrichment meant that the United States and Israel faced an imminent threat. The clear intent of the Iranian regime to build nuclear weapons has not changed. Given that, it was just for the United States and Israel to attack Iran in order to eliminate the nuclear threat,\u201d Murray affirmed, calling the joint military action \u201can act of protection, rather than aggression, under just war theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray also pointed out that the negotiations that preceded the attack on Iran \u201cshow the length to which the United States was willing to go to avoid war \u2014 evidence that the strike was a last resort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he noted that when Witkoff and Kushner told the Iranian negotiators that the United States would provide non-weapons-grade uranium to Iran for 10 years if it stopped pursuing nuclear weapons, they were rebuffed by the Iranians. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey rejected that, which told us at that very moment that they had no notion of doing anything other than retaining enrichment for the purpose of weaponizing,\u201d Witkoff recounted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe this is a just war precisely because of the nature of the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran poses to the United States, Israel, and its allies,\u201d Murray said in a separate interview<\/a>. \u201cThe just war criteria, in my opinion, does not require that we first absorb a nuclear attack before we can actually then respond to try to destroy their nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran<\/a> in late February but have been in a ceasefire since April 8, which President Donald Trump extended indefinitely amid negotiations. No side has agreed to long-term peace.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV criticized the war and urged peace while Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said<\/a> the attack \u201cdoes not seem to meet the conditions\u201d of just war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On April 23, Leo doubled down<\/a> on his opposition to war, saying he encourages \u201cthe continuation of dialogue for peace\u201d amid the ceasefire negotiations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war, and I would like to encourage everyone to make every effort to seek responses that come from a culture of peace and not of hatred,\u201d the Holy Father said.<\/p>\n

Tyler Arnold contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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