The Peace Bishops and the Arms Race: Can Religious Leadership Help in Preventing War?

by George Weigel

America will not do right in world affairs - will not take the lead in progress toward an end to war - until the public argument over America's role in the world breaks out of the sterile polarization in which it is now the polarization in which "peace and disarmament" defines one end of the spectrum, "Security and liberty" defines the other, and people are asked to choose up sides, or at least locate themselves somewhere along the continuum... A primary concern for the Catholic peace effort today must be to help the country break out of the present fragmentation.

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Published January 1, 1982

About the author

American author and political and social activist. Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation.

Each summer, Weigel and several other Catholic intellectuals from the United States, Poland, and across Europe conduct the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow, in which they and an assortment of students from the United States, Poland, and several other emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe discuss Christianity within the context of liberal democracy and capitalism, with the papal encyclical Centesimus Annus being the focal point.

He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.