“Something Called the Just War Doctrine” — Speaker Johnson Lectures Pope Leo XIV on Augustine

The Speaker, an evangelical with no theological training, told Pope Leo XIV he misunderstands the doctrine his patron saint invented while the pope walked through the ruins of Augustine’s cathedral.

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