“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building.

Four days after the U.S. military invasion of Iraq, Drew Christiansen, S.J., asked in the pages of America: “Whither the ‘Just War’?” (March 24, 2003). Now that President Donald Trump, after amassing ...

We know about war. It’s been a part of the human experience for thousands of years. For a majority of those years, there were particular practices as to how wars were conducted. They gathered in a ...

That war is almost always a calamity seems obvious. It was Ben Franklin who famously wrote that “there was never a good war or a bad peace,” but he said so in a letter written after the military ...

Was the recent U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear sites justified under the just war framework the Catholic Church has historically used to judge the morality of military action? It was not. The Trump ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Ministering to second-generation Haitians ...

This interview with Nigel Biggar—Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest—was conducted in the aftermath of the twelve-day war ...

In the early morning of June 22, American bombers bombed Iranian targets, and just like that, war has come that many warned would. How long will it take before the church responds? As with all war, we ...