'The Challenge of Peace' 40 years later: Durable principles, changed world

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops' landmark pastoral letter 'The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response.'

Then, the two 'superpower' nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, held each other in check in the nuclear age as in a high-stakes chess match, with most nations, and the billions of the world's inhabitants, merely pawns.

Today there is no more Soviet Union, as its affiliated states reclaimed their independence in the 1990

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