The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response
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The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response is a pastoral letter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
, which applies the Just War Theory to the moral problem of nuclear proliferation in the era of the Cold War
, issued in 1983. It is part of the Catholic social teaching
tradition.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic...
, which applies the Just War Theory to the moral problem of nuclear proliferation in the era of the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, issued in 1983. It is part of the Catholic social teaching
Catholic social teaching
Catholic social teaching is a body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of poverty and wealth, economics, social organization and the role of the state...
tradition.