War and peace

Explore U.S. Catholic articles on war and peace—analysis, reflections, and stories on reconciliation, peacebuilding, and Catholic social teaching.

Conscientious courage

Franz Jägerstätter paved the way for those who object to war by following a higher order. In April 1974, while serving at the U.S. Navy base in...

War stories

Faith on the line in Iraq and at home “There are no atheists in foxholes,” the World War II adage goes. Certainly Catholics who have faced war in...