The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response : a Pastoral Letter on War and Peace : May 3, 1983"We write this letter from the perspective of Catholic faith. Faith does not insulate us from the daily challenges of life but intensifies our desire to address them precisely in light of the Gospel which has come to us in the person of the risen Christ. Through the resources of faith and reason we desire in this letter to provide hope for people in our day and direction toward a world freed of the nuclear threat." [Summary]. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Continued Insistence on Efforts to Minimize the Risk | 2 |
B Kingdom and History | 18 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
assessment attack bishops Catholic teaching challenge Christ Christian Christian pacifism Church cited conflict conscience conventional council danger Day of Peace debate defense destruction dimension disarmament existence faith fidelity God's reign gospel hope Ibid involved issues Jesus John Paul II judgments jus ad bellum jus in bello just-war teaching justice justified kingdom legitimate limited lives means military moral principles morally acceptable negotiations non-violence nuclear age nuclear arms race nuclear deterrence nuclear exchange nuclear strategy nuclear war nuclear warfare nuclear weapons numbers papal teaching Pastoral Constitution pastoral letter Peace Message 1982 Pius XII political Pope John Paul Pope Paul VI Pope Pius XII possible prevent problems proportionality recognize religious require responsibility Second Vatican Council significant Soviet specific statements superpowers targets Testament theology of peace threat tradition United Nations Vatican Vatican II violence vision war and peace World Day