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September 16, 2017

Editorial: Nuclear ban elusive

North Koreans watch a news report of an intermediate-range ballistic missile launch on a big screen at Pyongyang station in Pyongyang, North Korea, Aug. 30.

The mere thought of North Korea’s homicidal dictator possessing a nuclear bomb is terrifying. But as long as world powers cling to their nuclear arsenals, the spread of these weapons is inevitable.

Published in Editorial
January 26, 2016

Pope tells Iran's president he has 'high hopes' for peace

Pope Francis greets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a private meeting at the Vatican Jan. 26. Looking on is is Archbishop Georg Ganswein, prefect of the papal household.

VATICAN CITY - Meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Vatican, Pope Francis told him he had high hopes for peace.

Published in Vatican
August 10, 2015

Pope Francis on the anniversary of the bomb: ‘A lasting warning to humanity’

This museum representation of a nuclear bombing shows burned skin peeling and hanging from hands Aug. 6 at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, Japan.

VATICAN CITY - Seventy years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Aug. 9 described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity.”

Published in International
August 6, 2015

U.S. bishop in Japan: American bishops will push for nuclear disarmament

People pray at a memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, to commemorate the victims of the atomic bombing of the city by the United States in 1945. Delegation members from the World Council of Churches, in Hiroshima for the commemoration, said they would return home to build a movement to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - For a long minute on a sunny morning, silence fell over the memorial park that commemorates the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.

Published in International
July 14, 2015

Vatican welcomes Iran's historic nuclear deal

World leaders take part in a press conference July 14 after reaching a nuclear deal with Iran. From left are Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi; French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius; German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier; Federica Mogherini, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond; and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

VATICAN CITY - The Holy See welcomed Iran's historic nuclear deal and expressed hopes that more future breakthroughs be on the horizon on other issues.

Published in International