Paul J. Griffiths of Duke Divinity School, is one of many who reflect on the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of The Challenge of Peace in the new issue of the CPF's journal, The Sign of Peace. The CPF invites you to read his thoughts below.

A Challenge That Cannot Be Met
by Paul J. Griffiths

It is a quarter of a century since the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the US issued The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response. That pastoral letter offered, among other things, an application of just war doctrine to the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons that could render our planet lifelessly radioactive. It was composed in a world whose international politics had been largely ordered for the preceding forty years around the opposition between the USSR and the USA, an opposition that had by 1983 come to seem eternal and beyond the possibility of change. Read more.

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The Sign of Peace journal brings a theological and scholarly look to matters of war and peace.

The Summer 2008 issue focuses on the 25th anniversary of the NCCB's pastoral letter,The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response.