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  • Can War be Just in a Nuclear Age?

  • Thomas Corbishley, S.J.
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 46 / Issue 543 / September 1965
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 July 2024, pp. 682-686
    Print publication:
    September 1965

  • Perhaps it is worth while beginning by taking a look at the traditional Catholic teaching on the just war. to see how and why it developed. It is significant that, in approaching the question of war. Aquinas asks whether it is always sinful to wage war. His discussion of this topic concludes with the formulation of three conditions for a war to be just. His doctrine has been elaborated by later theologians and perhaps the most comprehensive brief statement is to be found in the following passage from Father Henry Davis, S.J.:

    That war may be just the following conditions must be fulfilled: It must be declared by the State itself; it must be necessary in the last resort after diplomacy has failed; there must be a grave and just reason for it; the method of it must be just and in accordance with international law; an upright purpose must be intended; it may not be protracted after due satisfaction has been given or offered; the conditions of peace must be just, and may not be crushing, unless such severity is necessary for present self-defence.

    When the reasons for undertaking war are not certainly just, it is more generally taught that war may not be undertaken, for another State may not be deprived of rights in possession, one of these being immunity from attack. But when a State is on the defensive, it is sufficient justification for defence that its own injustice is not obvious.’

    It seems to me fair to suggest that the Just War doctrine arose precisely because Christians felt almost instinctively that war needed to be ‘justified'.

  • A Note on the Date of the Syrian Governorship of M. Titius

  • Thomas Corbishley
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 24 / Issue 1 / 1934
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 September 2012, pp. 43-49
    Print publication:
    1934

  • The traditional date for the Syrian governorship of M. Titius, ‘about 10 B.C.’, is derived from a passage in Josephus, where he is referred to in connection with Herod's supposed ‘third journey’ to Rome. The circumstances of this third journey have caused considerable perplexity to those who have investigated the details of the reign of Herod the Great. The trouble is due to a confusion in Josephus himself, who can be shown to be narrating a series of events as occurring after, which in reality refer to the years immediately before, 12 B.C. The ‘third journey’ was never undertaken or, indeed, contemplated, and the context in which the name of Titius occurs is to be dated to 12 B.C. and not later.