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Prayer of St Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred, let me bring love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is discord, unity Where there is doubt, faith Where there is error, truth Where there is despair, hope Where there is sadness, joy Where ther
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2. Prayer of St Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peaceWhere there is hatred, let me bring loveWhere there is injury, pardonWhere there is discord, unityWhere there is doubt, faithWhere there is error, truthWhere there is despair, hopeWhere there is sadness, joyWhere there is darkness, light
3. Divine Master,Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoledas to consoleTo be understoodas to understandTo be lovedas to loveFor it is in giving that we receiveIt is in pardoning that we are pardonedAnd it is in dying that we are born to eternal life
4. Catholic Social Teaching on war and peaceFr Bruce Duncan
5. Jesus teaching on peace Shalom - wholeness
Peace on Earth
Turn the other check
Love your enemies
Blessed are the peacemakers
Peter rebuked for drawing his sword
6. Military avoidance
Crusades religious
Just War
Anti-war; pacifist
Church positions on war
7. Early Christians were exempted from military service
After Constantine converted, many Christians then went to war
Always strict requirements regarding penance etc.
Conscientious objectors have continued through many peace traditions Military avoidance
8. War in Gods name
9. Just War MORAL CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING JUSTICE OF A WAR
Ius ad bellum (right to go to war)
1. Just cause
2. Declared by legitimate authority
3. Right intention restore justice
4. Probability of success
Proportionality between good and bad
outcomes
6. Last resort
7. Goal of establishing a lasting peace
Ius in bello (conduct during war)
Non-combatant immunity
Proportionality limiting destruction
to what is necessary
10. Can we have a just war with nuclear weapons in our world?
Pope Pius XII (1939-58)
11. War in any case?