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The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response is a 1983 pastoral letter of the American Catholic bishops addressing the issue of war and peace in a nuclear age. It reviewed the Catholic Church's teachings about peace and war, reaffirmed the just war theory as the main principles for evaluating the use of military force, acknowledged the legitimacy of nonviolence as an alternative ...
The relations between the Catholic Church and the state have been constantly evolving with various forms of government, some of them controversial in retrospect. In its history, the Church has had to deal with various concepts and systems of governance, from the Roman Empire to the medieval divine right of kings, from nineteenth- and twentieth-century concepts of democracy and pluralism to the ...
In his opening address Tuesday, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed empathy for those in conflict zones, from Myanmar to the Middle East.
American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-94784-2. McNeal, Patricia F. (1978). The American Catholic Peace Movement, 1928–1972. Classic Quilt Series. Arno Press. Merton, Thomas. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
Pope Francis on Sunday urged respect for civilians in conflict areas and said people were tired of wars, which he called a "disaster for the peoples and a defeat for humanity". After his weekly ...
A judge on Wednesday rejected Texas' attempts to compel a deposition from one of the largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border, dealing a new legal setback to a widening Republican-led ...
Conflict Texas Military Unit(s) Commander Casualties Outcome Reference 1842 Texas Archive War: Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers: Thomas I. Smith / Eli Chandler 0 Failure [11] 1844 Regulator–Moderator War: Texas Militia: Travis G. Broocks / Alexander Horton Unknown Accomplished [12] 1857 Cart War: Texas Militia: Unknown 0 Accomplished [13] 1886
Texas' Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued to shut down Annunciation House, a faith-based group that has sheltered migrants for decades, escalating conservatives’ targeting of Catholic ...