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The Catechism on the Right of Self-Defense
by E. L. Core
One of two articles for Gun Appreciation Day. Violence may be justified in the service of self-defense, even to the point of killing an unjust aggressor: this has been settled Catholic teaching for hundreds of years. The most recent restatement of the Church’s teaching on self-defense is in the second edition of the Catechism of […]