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...But that we Christians who are called to be MARGARET M. WEBER we think the country needs a voice apart the salt of the earth, the leaven, must now from politics calling for an end to the decide about an entirely different kind of MAD-ness fostered by SALT II...
...terms of SALT II if Senate ratification think the Bishop made his point rather Such a mobilization of national fails, have shown him willing to take effectively...
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...However, Bishop negotiations are conducted with one eye pleads for disarmament within the United on each other and one eye on potential Nations as the beginning of the family of Gumbleton fails to make his case against ratification of the SALT II treaty...
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...Even justified armament, in the of the President's intention of loosing the that Gaudium et Spes has infallibly said absence of deliberate tendencies to re- nuclear-bond...
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...The effect is to hide from our- cape this extremity as morality demands...
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...My only straint, leads to a destructive posture, Church strategy should do far more for purpose in citing the Council document is which is immoral, because it is increas- disarmament, however, than just back to express my own wonderment as to ingly prone to do what it has been made the administration on this issue...
...Contrary why Bishop Gumbleton seemingly atready to do...
...CARROLL T. DOZIER On the other hand, Father Hehir also non-public schools would make the same Bishop of Memphis fails to make a convincing argument that kind of commitment to halting the wasteratification of SALT II is "imperative...
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...Whatever slight gains may be anticipated are greatly outweighed by the " What can one make of a "permissiveness" it implies with respect magazine which excludes to a policy of mutually assured destruc- tion...
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...It is not as rigidly a not sincerity, in their commitment to true Detroit, Mich...
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...It has the prime virtue of purist, sectarian stand to hold to just war good summary statement of the main being able to invoke an epoch, emotion- theory even under the shadow of nuclear theological arguments for a theology of ally as well as intellectually, through the war...
...Experience teaching all West- moderation, i.e., SALT II, is the middle Both the opponents and proponents of em Civilization...
...Yes, said that an arms race channeled along certain Christians opposed to nuclear weapons Father J. Bryan Hehir of the Office of lines is at least theoretically a lesser evil and the vastness of our arsenal can make International Justice and Peace, United than a completely unchecked arms race...
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...The strongest of the seven for Be- "deterrence/non-use" posture-Hehir's rect when they conclude: "The theme noit is wrath- which in the context of the own stand on nuclear deterrence -makes will certainly return, even more ur- novel is transmuted to revenge-and it it seem as if nuclear war were only a mere gently...
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...the areas in continental Europe, the United States Arguments from extremity create the which socialism and Christianity seem to and the Caribbean, in a style uniquely misperception that intentions are converge and the points on which they adapted to the bizarre existence of the shadowy insubstantial things...
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...I am weakening the United States,will actu- pastoral strategy for the church just equally as concerned that we have spent ally strengthen our country and help it where there is most need to make clear billions of dollars on arms while people become a more constructive leader the church's commitment to peace...
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...In- administration ought to receive support deed, I would argue that it is more like a for SALT II...
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...These "political" realities PRIEST wanted to be a member of the The alternative of hope are based on the fundamental distrust, pastoral team at the Catholic Chapel of Richmond,Va...
...what Bishop Gumbleton calls this "morecognize as well as Father Hehir does To the Editors: I was struck by the irony ment of grace...
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...It is unfortunate that Father Hehir's nowhere near "half a loaf" to be GORDON ZAHN otherwise carefully reasoned argument gained-at most the treaty offers a few seems to miss the crucial point of Pax moldy crumbs...
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...Correspondence injustice, then moved to a recognition of This is a haunting, virtuosic and woncapitalism as a root cause of these prob- derful novel about a Rumanian gypsy (Continued from page 226) lems, and some now openly espouse boy named Benoit, a survivor of the tarian pacifists should, to accept the shel"democratic socialism" as an alternative Holocaust, and his intense struggle to ter to be found under the umbrella of closer to Christian principles...
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...In the case Under a different administration one paragraph 82 of Gadium et Spes which of individuals, certainly, the conscious could possibly oppose SALT II as an reads in part as follows: ". . . everyone development of a destructive cast of arms control charade...
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...tion.' To the Editors: First let me congratulate SALT II may be the best treaty pre- Pope Paul told the United Nations: "If you for publishing the exchange between sently possible, but it is inadequate...
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...when many speak to government offiPax Christi's Executive Council made cials about these inadequacies of SALT its non-support decision based on our unII, then the term "achieves too little" derstanding of the church's teachings Salt, not SALT will come to the fore...
...Instead, it is a refusal to under- objections to the treaty do not reflect a what I would term a secular argument take any share of responsibility for per- pragmatic calculation to be balanced that although SALT H is not the ideal petuating the false illusion that the trea- against that advanced by organizations treaty, it leaves an opening for further ty's approval would represent a substan- like the Committee on the Present negotiations...
...Moidecai, an old the author of a newly-published biography of would like to be an Air Force Chaplain, Jewish carpenter who speaks in proverbs...
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...To the Editors: . . . Bryan Hehir states In our issue of March 2 the question clear, Pax Christi's position is simply to that the terms of the debate are whether was posed: "Is SALT worth support- refuse to support the treaty...
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...This is the Pax Perpetuating illusion ure and destruction of civilization as we Christi position, not a 'too little posi- Boston, Mass...
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...multilateral problem, rather than a bilat- concept' are his following words: "Long To the Editors: From their answers to the eral problem, and it must be tackled with before they mete out death and destruca greater sense of urgency by the entire tion, those terrible arms supplied by question: "IS SALT II worth supporting...
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...You cannot love a member of Pax Christi's Executive national governments and international with weapons in your hands...
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...The only TRINITY COLLEGE, Burlington, Vermont would undoubtedly extinguish mankind way of reducing the probability of war is 05401, June 17-22, MEIER, NEWMAN, from the face of the earth, is utter lunacy...
...nations...
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...the Gospel I cannot acquiesce to the exisA treaty that does not entail definite tence of nuclear weapons...
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...To me, the very fact that nations have holocaust and, therefore, does not Biblical Institute progressed to the point where they have achieve the claimed goal of starting us arsenals of defense, which, if employed, down the road to disarmament...
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...Charles Chatfield, Belmont, Mass...
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...people of God need Catholic priests...
...GEORGE G. HIGGINS thing will be done to see a nation will be need for nuclear weapons, and the atten- Secretary for Special Concerns able to wage one...
...SALT may be a process world would be a much better place for J. Bryan Hehir characterized SALT as "a with a history and a future as Father all God's children-the born and the un- necessary process which is presently the Hehir says...
...Saving a child prostitute justifies The decisive reason for supporting Spes, I am not trying to score points, as neither the basically destructive disposi- SALT II, then, is that it fits into a pattern college debaters are frequently wont to tion this character creates for himself nor of actions on the part of the administra- do, by playing off one authoritative quote his wanton use of force...
...Ferry & Carol Bernstein Ferry, Francis L. Burke, Matawan, N.J...
...and USSR could survive a nuclear its actualization into mighty armaments liferation...
...If it supports SALT II, the pertinent to the subject under discussion the noble lie which is objectionable as it American church should do so, urging, than any of his other quotes...
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...tion, is not the goal of the SALT process...
...No other politi- tiago" by J. Bryan Hehir forms and proposing an honest and meancal journal offers Commonweal's religious ingful start on nuclear disarmament...
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...Harrington on Hannah Arendt, Saul Maloff Father Hehir's article touches upon the In recent issues: on Bernard Malamud, David Tracy on Karl two arguments usually proposed in the "A Puebla Diary" by Harvey Cox Rahner, Martin Green on John Gardner, treaty's favor...
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