| During 1981 a visible and vocal constituency arose in theAmerican Catholic hierarchy in opposition to the directionand dynamic of the nuclear arms race. The response was evi-dent in the score of individual bishops who addressed the armsrace in sermons, articles or pastoral letters in their own dio-ceses. It crystallized in the annual meeting of the U.S. Bish-ops Conference in November. Archbishop John R. Roach,President of the Conference, described the nuclear race as"the most dangerous moral issue in the public order today."The chairman of the recently established Committee on Warand Peace, Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin, provided themeeting with a substantive report of progress being madetoward a 1982 pastoral letter on the topic.1 The Bernardin re-port in turn stimulated a ninety minute discussion among thebishops on the need to address the moral questions of the armsrace as a key element in their pastoral teaching ministry. The vigorous Catholic engagement with the threat of thearms race is not limited to the bishops and it is not confined tothe United States. Within our country other groups within the |
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