id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _003376772 nan Amnesty a work of reconciliation. 1974 .txt text/plain 2705 113 55 On a prior occasion the Catholic bishops of the United States called attention to the needs of returning veterans, especially the wounded and the prisoners of war (Resolu- tion on Imperatives of Peace, November 16, 1972). Nor can it be said that such conscientious ob- jection to war, as war is waged in our times, is entirely the result of subjective considerations and without reference to the message of the Gospel and the teaching of the Church; quite the con- trary, frequently conscientious dissent reflects the influence of the principles which inform modern papal teaching, the Pastoral Constitution [of the Second Vatican Council] and a classical tradition of moral doctrine in the Church, including, in fact, the norms cache/_003376772.txt txt/_003376772.txt