1. 7Y 09-01-2016 Thursday Intro to Just War
Objective: Create a criteria for just war. Compare with the Catholic Church’s criteria for just war.
Main Build A Burger
Alternate Chicken Dippers with Sauce
Sides Baked Beans, Fries, Fruit
Agenda:
Prayer
Do Now: Share your homework answers with one another. Evaluate your partner’s answer. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?
Create a class criteria for just war. We will compare this later with the Church’s teachings.
Catholic Church Just War
Homework: none

2. Morning Prayers - Thursday
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN
(Join me in offering our day to God.)
My God, I thank you for the gift of another day to praise you.
I offer you all my prayers works, joys, and sufferings today. Amen.
(Let us now place ourselves before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament) May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, until the end of time.
O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, all praise and all thanksgiving, be every moment Thine.
(Let us pray.)
Dear Heavenly Father, grant me the grace to know the difference
between right and wrong, and the courage always to do what is right,
Through Christ, our Lord. AMEN
 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN
(Please stand for the pledge)
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

3. What conditions must exist for the government to have a good excuse to send your family members to war?
Country threatened beyond diplomacy – you’ve tried talking
If family members are trained and able
Safe job
If it’s against many other enemies.
If the other country is threatening us.
If innocent lives are being threatened
Land?
If we went to war, what if they use weapons of mass destruction?
Threatening our families.

4. class criteria for just war
A just war is when it is right to go to war.

5. Catholic Church’s Just War Criteria
Must be decided by the people in charge.
The damage being inflicted by the aggressor is grave, lasting, and certain.
All other options have been explored.
War as defensive measure must have serious prospect of success.
It cannot produce more or greater evil.
There is a duty to protect and help innocent victims. Helpers must never try to influence who they are helping.
There is a moral obligation to intervene when basic human rights are being seriously violated.
Economic sanctions must be used carefully and not to punish. It cannot just affect everyone (indiscriminate). The purpose has to be clear and obtainable.

6. Catholic Church’s Just War Criteria
Must be decided by the people in charge.

7. 2. The damage being inflicted by the aggressor is grave, lasting, and certain.
3. All other options have been explored.
4. War as defensive measure must have serious prospect of success.

8. 5. It cannot produce more or greater evil.
6. There is a duty to protect and help innocent victims. Helpers must never try to influence who they are helping.
7. There is a moral obligation to intervene when basic human rights are being seriously violated.

9. 8. Economic sanctions must be used carefully and not to punish
8. Economic sanctions must be used carefully and not to punish. It cannot just affect everyone (indiscriminate). The purpose has to be clear and obtainable.

10. Was the American Revolution a just war?
Facts about the causes of the American Revolution:
Intolerable Acts: Punish the colonists: Stopped trade for Boston, forced colonists to house soldiers, more taxes
No taxation without representation – colonists could not vote or decide who their leaders would be
Everything was taxed
Washington, Gage, Cornwallis, LaFayette, Adams, Jefferson  Rich and well educated men
Only about 30-40% of the Am. colonists wanted to go to war.
After the war, many colonists moved to British controlled Canada
The British was the strongest army at the time
Continental Congress tried boycotting and making peace (Olive Branch Petition) before officially declaring Independence.