Word: pacifistically
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...condemnation of the events in Poland was issued by the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council, which had been one of the most effective peace groups that organized protests against the deployment of U.S. missiles. The council conceded that the situation in Poland had been an enormous setback for the pacifist movement. Said Council Leader Mient-Jan Faber: "We were bewildered and outraged...
Poland is a classic example of the "peace" being promoted by the pacifist movement. Anthony B. De Angelis Willingboro...
...photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO. It also called on other left-wing terrorist groups to unite in the struggle and implied that efforts had been made to infiltrate the pacifist movement in Italy...
...from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November that "all other...
Christianity, of course, has not generally been pacifist, subscribing instead to St. Augustine's "just war" theory. That theory, argues San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop John Quinn, requires that a licit conflict must produce more good than evil and must protect large populations from indiscriminate injury. On those criteria, says Quinn, "it could never be morally justified to use strategic nuclear weapons...