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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Archbishop John Wester, Church in the US, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis has Archbishop John Wester looking back to his youth, remembering the “duck and cover” exercises he practiced in school, and lamenting that today’s children still grow up with nuclear threats.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Less than a month after meeting briefly with Pope Francis in Kazakhstan, one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s most senior prelates has said that relations between the two churches are more or less at a standstill.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Archbishop John C. Wester, Catholic News Service, Holy See Mission to the United Nations, News, nuclear disarmament, nuclear war, Nuclear weapons, United Nations, Vatican | 0 |
Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, brought his summons to begin meaningful conversations to achieve full nuclear disarmament to the annual United Nations prayer service.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, nuclear disarmament, Pax Christi, United Nations | 0 |
Four weeks of debate – during a review conference for a treaty widely viewed as a cornerstone of nuclear disarmament – resulted in no consensus on how to move forward despite the efforts of the Holy See, disarmament advocates and non-nuclear nations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | Archbishop John Wester, Bishop David J. Malloy, Church in the US, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pope Francis, United Nations, USCCB | 0 |
U.S. Bishops are calling for world leaders to continue working towards nuclear disarmament after participants in the recent Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Conference (NPT) failed to reach a consensus on a final document.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News, nuclear disarmament, Obituary, Pax Christi, Protests | 0 |
Oblate Father Carl Kabat, who routinely described himself as a “fool for Christ” for his many faith witnesses challenging U.S. nuclear weapons policy, died Aug. 4 at his religious order’s Madonna Residence in San Antonio. He was 88.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Catholic News Service, Holy See Mission to the United Nations, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, United Nations, Vatican | 0 |
Nuclear-weapon-free zones model a way forward toward a world free of nuclear weapons, said Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Hiroshima, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons | 0 |
An Aug. 9 event by Catholics to promote peace in the world was interrupted by what the U.S. Secret Service said was an unprovoked assault on one of its officers.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2022 | Archbishop John C. Wester, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, nuclear disarmament | 0 |
Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, thinks it’s time for serious conversations about how to achieve nuclear disarmament.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Catholic News Service, Holy See diplomacy, News, nuclear disarmament, nuclear war, Nuclear weapons, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
Nuclear weapons do not increase a nation’s or region’s security, in fact, they are a “risk multiplier” that gives people a false sense of security, Pope Francis said in a message to an international conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 12, 2022 | Archbishop John C. Wester, Biden Administration, Church in the US, Hiroshima, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pope Francis, USCCB | 0 |
Archbishop John Wester remembers a somber day on a 2017 trip to Japan where he heard the story of Japanese school children rushing to their classroom windows on an August day in 1945, attracted by the bright light of an atomic bomb detonating.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | Bishop David J. Malloy, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, United Nations, US bishops, White House | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace welcomed a pledge by five nuclear powers to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and new arms races.
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