Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lipscomb and many other bishops talk of the need to begin a dialogue on the issue of the morality of nuclear arms. The importance of the pastoral is that it is not an authoritarian fiat, but basically an invitation to lay Catholics, as well as to priests and nuns, to...
Father Theodore Hesburgh, 65, president of the University of Notre Dame, is not worried about the debate within the church over the propriety of the bishops' actions. Says he: "You can't move through the water this fast without a lot of turbulence around the edges." The situation...
Since the debate about the morality of atomic weapons began in 1945, U.S. Protestants have led the way, in both mounting demonstrations and developing theology. The pastoral letter, which will be formally issued next May after further revision, is by far the strongest and most dramatic Christian challenge to the...
The pastoral letter was drafted by a committee of five bishops, whose views on nuclear strategy range from hawkish to openly pacifist. The chairman of that committee in many ways exemplifies the new spirit of American Catholicism. He is the Most Rev. Joseph Louis Bernardin, 54, Archbishop of Chicago (see...
Philadelphia's influential Archbishop, John Cardinal Krol, 72, is liberal on disarmament and conservative on church discipline and doctrine. He suggested that the pastoral letter should more clearly acknowledge a nation's right to resist attack and tyranny from unjust aggressors by all means that are morally licit...