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February 23, 2018

Speaking Out: Lessons from Hiroshima

A Japanese woman suffers burns from thermal radiation after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Japan in World War II.
I was reading Dennis Bocks’ The Ash Garden for English class last semester. The book follows the story of three main characters affected by the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the Second World War.
Published in YSN: Speaking Out
May 28, 2015

UN inaction on nuclear weapons 'disappointing' to Catholic advocates

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the Ninth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in New York April 27. Catholic peace advocates expressed disappointment with the lack of progress during the conference to shrink the arsenals of nuclear weapons-possessing nations.

WASHINGTON- A month-long review of a key nuclear weapons treaty saw the nuclear powers stepping back from an opportunity to alter the status quo, much to the disappointment of Catholic peace advocates.

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