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Presents a set of essential elements in Catholicism's conception of itself as a social institution; reviews contemporary Catholic approaches to international order; examines current teaching on justice and peace; prospects.

Commenting on the US Catholic bishops' May 1983 pastoral letter.

George Will began a recent column by recounting a celebrated episode from that disastrous and indomitable year 1940. A British commander sent this cryptic three-word message as his troops were being evacuated: "But if not." Will makes the point that the words were immediately seen to be a quotation from Daniel 3, 18, the reply of the three young men to Kiug Nebuchadnezzar who had threatened to cast them into a fiery furnace for their refusal to worship the golden image he had erected.

This is the first book to offer the best essays, articles, and speeches on ethics and intelligence that demonstrate the complex moral dilemmas in intelligence collection, analysis, and operations. Some are recently declassified and never before published, and all are written by authors whose backgrounds are as varied as their insights, including Robert M. Gates, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; John P. Langan, the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University; and Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia and recipient of the Owens Award for contributions to the understanding of U.S. intelligence activities. Creating the foundation for the study of ethics and intelligence by filling in the gap between warfare and philosophy, this is a valuable collection of literature for building an ethical code that is not dependent on any specific agency, department, or country.