Introduction / Thomas A. Shannon -- Part I. The just war -- Pacifism and justifiable war / James Finn -- The just-war ethic and Catholic theology : Dynamics of change and continuity / J. Bryan Hehir -- Just-war criteria / James F. Childress -- Pax Christi / Joseph Fahey -- Part II. Protestant social ethics and pacifism / Paul Deats -- Roman Catholic social ethics andpacifism / Stephen E. Lammers -- Sources of the nonviolent tradition in American literature / Michel True -- American Catholic opposition to the Vietnam War : A preliminary assessment / David J. O'Brien -- Part III. The Church and pacifism -- Pacifism and the World Council of Churches / Walter G. Muelder -- The Beatitudes, the Works of Mercy, and pacifism / Eileen Egan -- The civilian COs / Paul Hanly Furfey -- The Catholic Church and witness against war / Tom Cornell -- The role of the peacemaker / Thomas J. Gumbleton.