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TIME sees the bishops' pastoral letter as "a classic example of the church's age-old effort to use moral idealism to change the realities of politics." However, the only practical solution to the nuclear threat is a moral solution. Nothing is more timeworn than the ancient ruse...
The sharply polarized views of the two clerics are the latest, and certainly the most dramatic, signs of the growing Catholic debate on nuclear morality. Three weeks ago, the U.S. hierarchy issued a pastoral letter that challenges Administration policy by calling for a halt to the production and deployment of...
The main question raised by the bishops' approval of the pastoral letter is whether it would indeed work for peace in the long run. The document is a classic example of the church's age-old effort to use moral idealism to change the realities of politics. But...
To work for mutual nuclear disarmament, the U.S., paradoxically, must operate from nuclear strength. Although they supported the policy of deterrence, which ultimately depends for its credibility on the will of the U.S. to use nuclear weapons if attacked, the bishops doubted that any use of nuclear arms by the...
At the insistence of the Vatican, the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter explicitly states that only the church's broad moral principles are absolute (for example, the immorality of indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians); it also concedes that Catholics of good will might differ over how these principles apply...