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David Carroll Cochran
David Carroll Cochran is a professor of politics, the director of the Archbishop Kucera Center and the co-director of the peace and justice minor at Loras College, in Dubuque, Iowa.
Articles by David Carroll Cochran
Politics & SocietyFaith and Reason
After 9/11 and Afghanistan, does just war theory have a place in Catholic thought?
David Carroll Cochran
The best argument against just war theory’s continuing place in Catholic teaching may not be that it is necessarily wrong in theory, but that it misunderstands the realities of war and peace today.
Jürgen Klopp, coach of the Liverpool Football Club, at the team’s trophy parade after winning the Champions League in 2019. (Pete, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Catholics looking to get into soccer? Look no further than Liverpool F.C.
David Carroll Cochran
Liverpool F.C. is the most Catholic team in the most Catholic sport.
ON THE FRONT LINES. The Rev. Carl Subler, a U.S. Army chaplain, distributes Communion in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, in 2009.
On Killing Soldiers: Was it legitimate to shoot at Joseph Ratzinger during World War II?
David Carroll Cochran
At age 16, Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was drafted into Hitler’s military. He was assigned to an anti-aircraft unit outside of Munich that targeted Allied bombers, a job Ratzinger described as bringing “many an unpleasantness, particularly for so nonmilitary a person
Books
Civic Conscience
David Carroll Cochran
Jason Brennan argues that if citizens vote, they have an obligation to do it well.
Identity Crisis: New voter ID laws subvert democracy and Catholic teaching.
David Carroll Cochran
New voter ID laws subvert democracy and Catholic teaching.