Word: antinuclear
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...Soviet natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe. They are improving now that the sanctions have been lifted, but face an acid test next year, when several NATO countries are scheduled to station U.S.-made intermediate-range nuclear missiles on their soil, over the furious objections of domestic antinuclear movements...
Moreover, the antinuclear crusade is a watershed for U.S. Catholicism. As a group, American bishops were almost jingoistic in their endorsements of U.S. foreign policy. Today dozens of the prelates are avowed pacifists. On nuclear morality and other social issues, says the Rev. Michael Campbell Johnson, Rome-based head of the Jesuits' Commission for Justice and Peace, the American bishops "may at last be slightly out in front of the [world] church as a whole." Some feel they may be too far out in front. New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke, 61, warned his colleagues last week that...
...bellicose rhetoric of the Reagan campaign alarmed many bishops, who feared that the new Administration might blunder its way into nuclear war. Many bishops became more active in various antinuclear efforts. In November 1980, the bishops authorized the Bernardin committee to begin work on the pastoral letter. Pressed by mounting local demands to help the poor and the unemployed, key church leaders like Roach also assailed Reagan's $1.5 trillion defense buildup. The ensuing antinuclear wave in Western Europe and the U.S. has strengthened the bishops' commitment...
Public discomfort over Reagan's perceived lack of commitment to arms control, and over his strategic weapons buildup, has been one of the President's serious political liabilities. The Democrats have sought to capitalize on these fears and capture the antinuclear issue. The bishops' letter is, intentionally or not, highly sympathetic to Democratic positions on nuclear arms. Indeed, the language used in calling for a freeze is nearly identical to a resolution, backed mainly by Democrats, that narrowly failed a House vote (204-202) last August; approved instead was a softer, Administration-backed proposal. Aside from...
...debate over nuclear policy has caused divisions within the U.S. Catholic Church. On the ramparts for the antinuclear activists are the 57 bishops, including Gumbleton, who belong to the American branch of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. They have been encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II, who has made the abolition of nuclear war a central theme of his papacy and who last year made a pilgrimage to the memorial at Hiroshima. Some have gone as far as Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, who has told those in his diocese not to work...