Related Reading

Here are some links to articles on Just War to further your own thinking on its morality:

• The Catechism of the Catholic Church treats this in numbers 2307-2317, in particular see #2309

• The Vatican

• US Catholic Bishop's Social Development and World Peace web site (with links to various statements on Iraq)

• First Things article by George Weigel: Moral Clarity in a Time of War (This article sets out the theological basis for just war and who determines it

• Fr. Schall's article The Pius and the War"

• Michael Novak, Civilian Casualities and Turmoil

• A UK Telegraph opinion piece about Tony Blair's meeting with the Pope

• Interview with Professor José Alfredo Peris Cancio on Just War

Baptism & Salvation (Br. Jonathan, 1/19)

• Br. Jonathan's Outline (PDF)
• The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective, by J. A. Dinoia
• works by Scott Hahn

Suffering (Fr. Rob, 11/10)

• On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Salvifici Doloris), Apostolic Letter of John Paul II
• Making Sense out of Suffering, Peter Kreeft
• The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying, ed. Richard John Neuhaus

The Rosary (Br. Luke, 10/6)

How to say the Rosary (with the new Luminous Mysteries included)

Rosarium Virginis Mariæ This is the Apostolic Letter in which Pope John Paul II introduces the Luminous Mysteries and proclaims October 2002 to October 2003 the Year of the Rosary.

A Post-9/11 Christian Response (Fr. James Schall, 9/15)

Fr. Schall's web sites:

1. www.georgetown.edu/schall
2. www.morec.com/schall

Books mentioned in his talk:

1. Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History, H.W. Crocker III
2. The Concept of Sin, Josef Pieper
3. The Unity of Philosophical Experience, Etienne Gilson
4. Iris Exiled: A Synoptic History of Wonder, Dennis Quinn
5. A Guide for the Perplexed, E.F. Schumacher
6. Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later..., with commentaries by E.F. Schumacher
7. A Grief Observed/Miracles/the Problem of Pain/the Great Divorce/the Screwtape Letters/Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis