John F. Kane

JOHN F. KANE is associate professor of Religious Studies at Regis College in Denver. This paper was presented at the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, 27 April 1984. References in the text to the bishops' letter are to numbered paragraphs in the original, The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Con￾ference, 1983).