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July 16, 2020

Editorial: Now, more than ever

A file photo shows U.S. military personnel working on an F/A-18E Super Hornet as an aircraft carrier conducts drills in the South China Sea.

Over the years, we have heard the pleas of popes and Vatican officials to halt the worldwide production of weapons. In virtually every case, the urgency of the plea has been punctuated by the preface: “Now, more than ever ….”

Published in Editorial
February 17, 2018

Doomsday clock ticking on nuclear threat

The Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock reads two minutes to midnight. Anti-nuclear voices include the 122 nations who endorsed a United Nations treaty last July to classify nuclear weapons as illegal, indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction.

Is the world moving closer to nuclear war? 

Published in International
July 10, 2017

Nuclear weapons ban treaty has challenge of actual disarmament occurring

A sign with the words NO NUKES is seen in front of the Presidential Office Building during an anti-nuclear protest March 3 in Taipei, Taiwan.

WASHINGTON – The passage of a United Nations treaty banning the possession of nuclear weapons comes at a time when the majority of world's nations are frustrated with the slow pace of nuclear disarmament.

Published in International
July 6, 2017

U.S., European bishops call for a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons

In a joint declaration released July 6, U.S. and European Catholic bishops called for all nations to develop a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons.

WASHINGTON – Agencies of the U.S. and European Catholic bishops have called for all nations to develop a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons from their military arsenals.

Published in International
December 8, 2014

Pope Francis calls for solidarity in creating a world without nuclear weapons

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz talks with Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva, at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons Dec. 8. Pope Francis called on world leaders, activists and people of faith to pull together to rid the world of the threat of nuclear weapons.

VIENNA - Pope Francis called on world leaders, activists and people of faith to pull together to rid the world of the threat of nuclear weapons.

Published in International