Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Chatham, Josiah G. (Josiah George), Rt. Rev. Msgr., 1914-1988" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1961/December/no-day 

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Type:  transcript - Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after orignal and often by another person. Often typed version of a holograph orignal.

To/From:  from Merton to "Chatham, Josiah G. (Josiah George), Rt. Rev. Msgr., 1914-1988"-->

# of pages:  2

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "I think that in this awful issue of nuclear war there is involved much more than the danger"

Contents:  moral theologians sticking to "safe" positions instead of denouncing war - similar to German clergy and Catholic press support of Nazis - did not prevent Fr. Metzger and priests and religious killed at Dachau / Pope's strong language of peace / views of Russian Orthodox

Language:  English

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Unique identifier:  Section A- "Chatham, Josiah G. (Josiah George), Rt. Rev. Msgr., 1914-1988:"    1961/December/no-day