Excerpt from The Morality of Nuclear Warfare From the Catholic Viewpoint: Monograph Christian ethics has never considered war to be intrinsically unjust, but it was hoped that Christian brotherly love would do away with the causes of war. From early Christian times, the great doctors of the Church have refused to condemn war absolutely. St. Ambrose condemned wars of looting, but, onthe other hand, praised military fortitude in war as a Christian virtue. St. Augustine did not believe that he who serves in war cannot please God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.