The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise & Our Response

by National Catholic News Service and National Conference of Catholic Bishops

Book Overview

This booklet is a Pastoral Statement of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. "While this letter is addressed principally to the Catholic community, we want it to make a contribution to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555868630
• ISBN13: 9781555868635
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

LISTEN, LENNY, I STUDIED THIS CLOSELY A QUARTER CENTURY AGO

and still study it and find its definitions of just cause and just war (just reasons to go to war and just conduct in warfare) to be more crucial today than ever. Sure, this was written when nuclear war with the USSR was promoted our greatest concern and reason for funding the warmakers. But now that we go through the latest reason for being in Iraq without yet getting the truth, we need to contemplate carefully this important document by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of a generation ago. Nowadays they are too afraid of bankruptcy for the perversion of a few clergy to speak out as prophetically as we need right now today. This document will bring you to the correct conclusion that no Catholic can go fight in Iraq, etc. There is no just reason for going to war and there is no just conduct of the war. Indiscriminate warfare in particular is condemned, yet the well respected British medical journal the Lancet, after a careful and dangerous comprehensive survey in the field estimates we have killed up to a million Iraqis. Just look at our genocide of Fallujah and targetting innocent civilians, mothers and children, attempting to flee our horror and our terrorizing their people. Please get and study this book, now under a dollar, plus shipping. It reveals the theological and moral truths which absolutely condemn our current very profitable warmongering. Then get anything by the Reverend Father John Dear, SJ, who is not afraid to speak theological truth to wordly powers and dominations.