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The Challenge of Peace:
God’s Promise and Our Response
A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace
by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops
May 3, 1983
Summary
The Second Vatican Council opened its evaluation of modern warfare with the statement: “The whole human race
faces a moment of supreme crisis in its advance toward maturity.” We agree with the council’s assessment; the crisis
of the moment is embodied in the threat which nuclear weapons pose for the world and much that we hold dear in the
world. We have seen and felt the effects of the crisis of the nuclear age in the lives of people we serve. Nuclear
weaponry has drastically changed the nature of warfare, and the arms race poses a threat to human life and human
civilization which is without precedent.
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.
As Catholic bishops we write this letter as an exercise of our teaching ministry. The Catholic tradition on war and
peace is a long and complex one; it stretches from the Sermon on the Mount to the statements of Pope John Paul II.
We wish to explore and explain the resources of the moral-religious teaching and to apply it to specific questions of
our day. In doing this we realize, and we want readers of this letter to recognize, that not all statements in this letter
have the same moral authority. At times we state universally binding moral principles found in the teachings of the
Church; at other times the pastoral letter makes specific applications, observations and recommendations which
allow for diversity of opinion on the part of those who assess the factual data of situations differently. However, we
expect Catholics to give our moral judgments serious consideration when they are forming their own views on specific
problems.
The experience of preparing this letter has manifested to us the range of strongly held opinion in the Catholic
community on questions of fact and judgment concerning issues of war and peace. We urge mutual respect among
individuals and groups in the Church as this letter is analyzed and discussed. Obviously, as bishops, we believe that
such differences should be expressed within the framework of Catholic moral teaching. We need in the Church not
only conviction and commitment but also civility and charity.
While this letter is addressed principally to the Catholic community, we want it to make a contribution to the wider
public debate in our country on the dangers and dilemmas of the nuclear age. Our contribution will not be primarily
technical or political, but we are convinced that there is no satisfactory answ
The Challenge of Peace:
God’s Promise and Our Response
A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace
by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops
May 3, 1983
Summary
The Second Vatican Council opened its evaluation of modern warfare with the statement: “The whole human race
faces a moment of supreme crisis in its advance toward maturity.” We agree with the council’s assessment; the crisis
of the moment is embodied in the threat which nuclear weapons pose for the world and much that we hold dear in the
world. We have seen and felt the effects of the crisis of the nuclear age in the lives of people we serve. Nuclear
weaponry has drastically changed the nature of warfare, and the arms race poses a threat to human life and human
civilization which is without precedent.
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.
As Catholic bishops we write this letter as an exercise of our teaching ministry. The Catholic tradition on war and
peace is a long and complex one; it stretches from the Sermon on the Mount to the statements of Pope John Paul II.
We wish to explore and explain the resources of the moral-religious teaching and to apply it to specific questions of
our day. In doing this we realize, and we want readers of this letter to recognize, that not all statements in this letter
have the same moral authority. At times we state universally binding moral principles found in the teachings of the
Church; at other times the pastoral letter makes specific applications, observations and recommendations which
allow for diversity of opinion on the part of those who assess the factual data of situations differently. However, we
expect Catholics to give our moral judgments serious consideration when they are forming their own views on specific
problems.
The experience of preparing this letter has manifested to us the range of strongly held opinion in the Catholic
community on questions of fact and judgment concerning issues of war and peace. We urge mutual respect among
individuals and groups in the Church as this letter is analyzed and discussed. Obviously, as bishops, we believe that
such differences should be expressed within the framework of Catholic moral teaching. We need in the Church not
only conviction and commitment but also civility and charity.
While this letter is addressed principally to the Catholic community, we want it to make a contribution to the wider
public debate in our country on the dangers and dilemmas of the nuclear age. Our contribution will not be primarily
technical or political, but we are convinced that there is no satisfactory answ
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