Church leaders need to prepare for realities of 'post-peak' restrictions
- Apr 10, 2020
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Catholics offer moral arguments in drive to extend nuclear arms treaty
- Feb 2, 2020
The Cold War may have ended in 1991, but nuclear disarmament advocates in the Catholic Church and beyond say nuclear weapons still pose a grave danger to humanity.
Vatican working to get U.S., Russia to discuss nuclear arms reduction
- Jan 31, 2020
The Holy See is working through nongovernmental channels to bring U.S. and Russian negotiators together to discuss new reductions in the countries’ nuclear weapons arsenals, an official with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Integral Human Development said during a visit to The Catholic University of America.
Pope says parents cried over atom bombings
- Nov 25, 2019
Pope Francis has told Japanese Emperor Naruhito that he remembers seeing his parents cry over the news of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago.
Pope in Japan condemns those who invoke peace, but keep nuclear arms
- Nov 24, 2019
Pope Francis visited Nagasaki and Hiroshima on Sunday during his apostolic visit to Japan.
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pope Francis bids to be “norm entrepreneur”
- Nov 24, 2019
Every pope over the last seven decades has supported nuclear disarmament, so there’s nothing novel in Francis doing the same.
Pope calls money spent on nukes ‘an affront crying out to heaven’
- Nov 24, 2019
“The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit the integral development of peoples and to protect the natural environment,” Pope Francis said Sunday.
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