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expositions-2482	none	Introduction	2020	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1894	66	34	In this context, the authors will address some of the arguments raised about supporting just war, which has been an area of recent focus for some scholars in Expositions and elsewhere.10 Others, such as Cardinal Turkson, have argued that the development of understanding and practices of nonviolence may be distracted or obscured by the ongoing commitment to just war in the Catholic community, even when that is not the stated intention.11 There are also significant questions about the consistency of just war with Jesus’s way, how just war has primarily functioned to justify or enable war, how it has been an inadequate or ineffective constraint on war, how it still gets us stuck in vicious cycles of violence even when war appears just, and how it has failed to form us, particularly as peacemakers.12 For example, in 2017, Bishop McElroy said that the just war principles have “become only a little bit less than a green light” for war, and that the Church must “recognize the The Future of Nonviolence in Catholic Social Teaching 4   increasing incapacity of the just war tradition to be an effective constraint on warfare in the modern age. Nearly 66 million people are displaced by war and violence, which comes out to one in every 113 people, with children making up half of all refugees.3 The Yemen war has killed over 100,000 civilians plus one person every hour dying from cholera,4 not to mention wars in South Sudan, Libya, DRC, Somalia, etc.	cache/expositions-2482.pdf	txt/expositions-2482.txt