Cardinal McElroy: favor nonviolence over just-war thinking
August 08, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Speaking in Nagasaki on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, DC called for a move to “renew and prioritize the claim of nonviolent action as the primary framework for Catholic teaching on war and peace.
The American prelate remarked that Pope Francis had “placed nonviolence rather than the just-war ethic as the primary prism” for Catholic thinking on international conflict.
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