Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq

The continuing drumbeat of Catholic and other neoconservatives in favor of the tragic, immoral, and obviously unsuccessful war in Iraq, plus the muted response to it of the American Catholic Hierarchy, has left anti-war Catholics fighting an uphill battle in the face of an aggressive, self-proclaimed "Christian" presidency. Neo-CONNED! rectifies this situation, by setting forth the rock-solid case against the war in terms of both the just-war tradition and the prudence, realism, and common sense of authentic patriotism. It refutes pernicious myths about religion, war, and Christian citizenship, arguing that God, the Church, and conscience trump the government in determining both the justice of a war and a licit course of action for those called upon to support it. The essays and interviews in Neo-CONNED! dissect the moral aspects of the war in Iraq with unparalleled precision and candor, while the appendices (*) explain just-war doctrine and conscientious objection in absolutely orthodox terms. Together they represent the best in contemporary political analysis. Book jacket.

J. Forrest Sharpe is the publisher and managing director of IHS Press. He is a student of Catholic Social Doctrine and the English Distributist movement. D. Liam O'Huallachain is the editorial director of IHS Press and is a student of Catholic Social Doctrine, the English Distributist Movement, and contemporary alternative political movements. Both have edited and annotated editions of works by 20th-century social thinkers such as G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Fr. Vincent McNabb, Fr. Heinrich Pesch, and Dr. George O'Brien. Bishop Hilarion Cappucci is the Patriarchial Vicar of Jerusalem in Exile. George Lopez, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.