Crosiers Into Plowshares (or Catholic Bishops as Peacemakers)

Abstract

“We are seeing a remarkable turn of events. The God-and-country mentality, so pronounced in the late Cardinal Spellman, is as dead as the Dred Scot decision … The bishops are against the arms race; they reject the concept of peace through a balance of terror; and they seem to be coming rapidly to the view that the just-war theory, for centuries the cornerstone of Catholic moral teaching, is no longer operative.”