Anna Floerke Schied and Tobias Winright write: The just war tradition is anchored in the principle of neighbour-love, which calls us to imitate the Good Samaritan and be the neighbour who acts out of love for those in dire need and distress (Luke 10:25-37). As the twentieth-century Methodist ethicist Paul Ramsey asked, had the Samaritan… Read More Ukraine’s Just War Against Russia’s Unjust Aggression
Check out these recent articles from around the web: The West’s moral calculi become more fraught as genocide looms and oil prices rise by Michael Sean Winters: “We are facing evil, and we need to resist it. But if that resistance is not marked by moral seriousness, that resistance could perpetuate the violence instead of… Read More Around the Web
via the Washington Post: At least 17 people, including staffers and patients, were injured after a maternity hospital in Mariupol was struck by Russian forces, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. Images of the aftermath show injured pregnant women being carried from the scene. Videos shared on social media and verified by The Washington Post show damage… Read More Russia Bombs Maternity Hospital in Latest War Crime
Pope Francis: “Go forth and reach out to all people at the margins of society! Go there and be the Church, with the strength of the Holy Spirit.”
US President Joe Biden: “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of Ukrainian people. He’ll never extinguish their love of freedom. And he will never, never weaken the resolve of the free world. ”
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Marcus Mescher, a writer for Millennial since its inception, is an associate professor of Christian ethics at Xavier University. He is the author of The Ethics of Encounter: Christian Neighbor Love as a Practice of Solidarity (Orbis, 2020). He has also written for numerous academic journals and popular periodicals, including America Magazine and National Catholic… Read More Can Encounter and Solidarity Overcome Divisions and Despair?
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