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As was made clear in our introductory remarks yesterday, it is very true that "Common Ground" does not present "a full spectrum of opinions" on these issues. It is not clear, however, how that fact affects the event's legitimacy. A series of angry, polemical arguments presenting extremist views would...
The statement released last week, at the climax of the 1982 election campaign, is not the work of activists campaigning for the nuclear freeze resolutions that are on the ballot in nine states, nor of Democrats who have been trying to make the Reagan Administration's arms control policies...
Despite its detailed prescriptions, the document is presented as a theological tract, suffused with "the good news which has come to us in the person of Jesus." It invokes a biblical vision of peace to reach its clear theme: "We must continually say no to the idea of nuclear war...
That, surely, is an overstatement. But by casting this political issue in a theological context, the bishops are likely to have a profound effect on the debate over how to counter the Soviet military threat. As with the addition of any moral element to discussions of public policy, this religious...
"This is not the faith that nourished me," protests Michael Novak. A former seminarian and now resident scholar at the Conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Novak is a leading lay thinker in the U.S. Catholic Church. He is the author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which posits that...