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Conscience, War and Peace

Guidance on Questions of Conscience and Military Service
August 2007

What Should a Catholic in the Military Do?
Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA

Excerpts from: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church - Defending Peace, 2004
Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA

Excerpts from: Catechism of the Catholic Church— Safeguarding Peace
Second Edition, 1997

Excerpts from "The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace" - Centrality of Conscience
United States Catholic Conference, November 1993

Bishops' Statements on Iraq

Excerpts from The Challenge of Peace — God's Promise and Our Response "The Role of Conscience" A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, May 3, 1983

Statement on Registration and Conscription for Military Service
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, February 14, 1980

Declaration on Conscientious Objection and Selective Conscientious Objection
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, October 21, 1971

Statement on the Catholic Conscientious Objector Division of World Justice and Peace
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, October 15, 1969

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