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Nuclear Weapons

Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, and Mikhail Mishustin, Russian prime minister, attend a meeting in Moscow in this Nov. 9, 2021, file photo. Archbishop Gallagher read a message from Pope Francis in Vienna June 21 at the first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The pope wrote that nuclear weapons are a "risk multiplier," not a deterrent to war. (CNS photo/Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/Pool via Reuters)

World free of nuclear weapons is necessary, possible, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Jun 21, 2022|2 Min Read

In this 2014 file photo, an unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie. (CNS photo/Air Force, Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson, Handout via Reuters)

Advocates: U.N. conference a chance to reduce threat of nuclear weapons

Dennis Sadowski|Jan 3, 2022|6 Min Read

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, is pictured during a visit to Berlin June 29, 2021. (Gordon Welters/KNA via CNS)

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Vatican’s chief diplomat expresses concerns over AUKUS nuclear sub deal

Inés San Martín|Sep 23, 2021|4 Min Read

(CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Catholic organizations urge Biden to return U.S. to Iran nuclear deal

Catholic News Service|Feb 26, 2021|2 Min Read

Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded. (Wikimedia Commons)

The journalist and the Jesuit

Heather King|Feb 5, 2021|4 Min Read

The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. (Oilstreet/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5 via CNA)

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Catholic bishops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hail nuclear weapons ban treaty

Courtney Mares|Jan 22, 2021|3 Min Read

Demonstrators in Washington protest nuclear weapons April 1, 2016, as world leaders met in the U.S. capital for the Nuclear Security Summit. A Holy See-supported treaty banning the possession of nuclear weapons that comes into force Jan. 22, 2021, is buoying efforts of nations and organizations working to abolish such armaments. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

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Catholic advocates welcome treaty banning nuclear weapons coming into force

Dennis Sadowski|Jan 14, 2021|6 Min Read

A sign with the peace symbol is pictured in a file photo during a rally against nuclear weapons in front of London's Houses of Parliament. Bishops of England and Wales and Scotland have issued a joint statement calling upon the U.K. government to scrap the country's nuclear weapons. (CNS photo/Luke MacGregor, Reuters)

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Bishops say U.K. should eliminate nuclear arsenal, use money for poor

Simon Caldwell|Jan 11, 2021|2 Min Read

Seven Catholics, calling themselves the Kings Bay Plowshares, are seen April 4, 2018, before they entered the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia to protest nuclear weapons. They argued in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Aug. 7, 2019, that their actions were motivated by their Catholic faith and not by their political beliefs and therefore were protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The group includes, from left, Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, Elizabeth McAlister, Jesuit Father Steve Kelly, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville and Carmen Trotta. (CNS photo/Kings Bay Plowshares)

Peace activists receive prison sentences for submarine base protest

Dennis Sadowski|Nov 13, 2020|5 Min Read

Seven Catholics, calling themselves the Kings Bay Plowshares, are seen April 4, 2018, before they entered the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia to protest nuclear weapons. They argued in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Aug. 7, 2019, that their actions were motivated by their Catholic faith and not by their political beliefs and therefore were protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The group includes, from left, Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, Elizabeth McAlister, Jesuit Father Steve Kelly, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville and Carmen Trotta. (CNS photo/Kings Bay Plowshares)

Sentences passed on two Kings Bay Plowshares defendants

Mark Pattison|Oct 16, 2020|4 Min Read

Nagasaki, Japan, is pictured four years after an atomic bomb was detonated over the city Aug. 9, 1945. A Vatican representative told an Aug. 26 online U.N. meeting that there is no moral case for continued nuclear weapon testing. (CNS photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files, USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters)

Vatican representative calls on U.S. to sign nuclear-test-ban treaty

Cindy Wooden|Aug 28, 2020|2 Min Read

A girl prays after releasing a paper lantern on the Motoyasu River facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 6, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the U.S. dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (CNS photo/Yuriko Nakao, Reuters)

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Weapons must be set aside for peace to flourish, pope says

Carol Glatz|Aug 6, 2020|2 Min Read

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