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In an essay drawn from his preface to 'No Guilty Bystander,' a biography of Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, the late peace activist reflects on life lessons and expresses gratitude.
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
Over the course of three years in the 1980s, the U.S. bishops not only wrestled with the specter of nuclear Armageddon in writing a pastoral letter, but how to convey that teaching effectively.