South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 12
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Peace pastoral is moral statement
Bishop Drury tells students
By Joe Michael Feist
STC Editor_
CORPUS CHRISTI — One week
before the Catholic bishops of the
United States were scheduled to debate
a pastoral letter on war and peace,
Bishop Thomas Drury of Corpus Christi
told a group of college students and pro-
fessors that the letter was, in essence, a
statement on the morality of warfare,
not politics or military strategy.
“There will always be those die hards
who will say we shouldn't even be talk-
ing about this,” Bishop Drury said. But
the bishops are attempting “to address
these issues from a moral standpoint,”
he added.
Bishop Drury’s remarks came during
a speech on the pastoral letter at Corpus
Christi State University April 25. The
talk was spc. ored by the Catholic
Campus Com"'unity,
Catholic bishops from throughout the
United States are scheduled to debate
the historic pastoral, now in its third
draft, at a special meeting in Chicago
May 2-3.
“Tne churches have to speak out,”
said Bishop Drury. “All of the churches
are speaking out to resolve this problem.
We’re in a terrible (arms) race right
now.
Bishop Drury also disclosed that, as it
now stands, he would vote against the
pastoral.
“I think it’s too weak,” the bishop
said flatly.
He cited the change of one word in
the third draft for his feeling.
The second draft of the pastoral urged
an immediate, verifiable, and bilateral
“halt” to the production and deploy-
ment of nuclear weapons. The third
draft, however, urges agreements to
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“The global threat of nuclear war it a
central concern of the univertal
church, at the words and deeds of re-
cent popes and the Second Vatican
Council vividly demonstrate....The
nuclear threat transcends religious,
cultural and national boundaries,*'
said the U.S. bishops in their pastoral
on war and peace. The bishops will
vote on the proposed pastoral in
Chicago on May 3. (NC Photo)
“curb” the testing, production, and
deployment of such systems.
The bishop said that he favors the
language of the second draft because it is
stronger and, in effect, calls for a
nuclear freeze.
Bishop Drury touched on some of the
main themes of the pastoral. A first
strike, for example, would always be im-
moral, the bishop said, as would the
targeting of civilian populations.
The key issue in the debate, Bishop
Drury said, would be the policy of deter-
rence, or what is morally acceptable to
deter the Soviet Union from attacking
the United States.
The third draft states that deterrence
policies should not be seen as an ends in
themselves but as a step on the tolJ to
disarmament.
Bishop Drury recalled the day in 1945
when, as an Air Force Chaplain in
Washington state, he heard about the
dropping of the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima.
“When it happened, we all said
'thanks be to God,’ maybe now the war
will end. Little did we realize how terri-
ble it really was,” said Buhop Drury.
The bishop acknowWaged that the
Soviet Union was “looking for expan-
sion in Central America” and was “try-
ing to spread communism.”
He added that the United States and
the Soviet Union were both “jockeying
for position.”
“The problem i* to get the powers
that be to be sensible and to look at
things as they would really be if
(nuclear) war broke out,” said Bishop
Drury.
If the super-powers don’t sit down
and talk, said the bishop, “I’m afraid
we’re in for the destruction of the
planet.”
From the Bishop
Holy Year observance
By the Most Rev, Thomas J. Drury
In our observance of the Holy Year which extends
from this past March 25th to April 22nd in 1984, the
Holy Father has stated that each Ordinary (resident
bishop) is to designate certain Churches and Chapels
in their jurisdiction to which the laity may come on
pilgrimage. In our Diocese of Corpus Christi, we have
named the following:
In the Deanery of Alice — St. Frances de Paula
parish church in San Diego; Our Lady of Good
Counsel parish church in Kingsvil’e; the Benedictine
Monastery Chapel in Sandia;
In the Deanery of Refugio — Our Lady of Refuge
parish church in Refugio; St. Mary, Star of the Sea
parish church in Aransas Pass; the Schoenstatt Chapel
in Lamar;
In the Deanery of Laredo — the parish churches of
Holy Redeemer, St, Peter, Christ the King, St.
Augustine, in the city of Laredo;
In the Deanery of Corpus Christi — the Cathedral,
Most Precious Blood, St. Anthony’s parish church in
Robstown; and the Chapels of the Blessed Sacrament
(Pink Sisters) and Monastery of the Poor Clares.
The purpose of the visits of the faithful to these
Churches and Chapels is a call to repentance and con-
version as necessary disposition for sharing in the grace
of the Redemption which Christ achieved. Therefore,
(See BISHOP, pg, 7)
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