When is a war a ‘just war’?

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An interesting result of President Donald Trump’s strange and mostly one-sided feud with the pope is that there is something of a debate, through the lens of Catholic theology, about whether the US and Israel’s war on Iran is a “just war.”

Without restating the minutiae of Trump’s direct attacks on Pope Leo XIV and Leo’s discussion of whether God listens to the prayers of those

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