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Nuclear Weapons

An atomic bomb detonates over Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945. (CNS photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files, USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters)

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Archbishop Gomez echoes pope in calling for abolition of nuclear weapons

Dennis Sadowski|Aug 5, 2020|3 Min Read

In this 2018 file photo, peace activists hold a Catholic prayer service of repentance near the White House for the use of nuclear weapons on Japan during World War II. Bishops from Japan and the U.S. explored Catholic efforts to end the danger of nuclear weapons during an Aug. 3, 2020, webinar commemorating the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bomb drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

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Bishops from Japan, U.S. call Catholics to work for nuclear disarmament

Dennis Sadowski|Aug 3, 2020|5 Min Read

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, an official in the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks Jan. 30, 2020, at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Parties working to get U.S., Russia to discuss nuclear arms reduction

Dennis Sadowski|Jan 31, 2020|6 Min Read

Nuclear disarmament proponents sit in a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee about presidential authority to use nuclear weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington Nov. 14, 2017. Disarmament advocates in the Catholic Church and beyond are part of a campaign to extend by five years the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia. (CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters)

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Catholics offer moral arguments in drive to extend nuclear arms treaty

Dennis Sadowski|Jan 30, 2020|5 Min Read

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Being realistic in the face of nuclear weapons

Russell Shaw|Jan 17, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis speaks during a news conference onboard the papal plane on his flight back from a trip to Thailand and Japan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2019. (Remo Casilli/Pool Photo/AP via Crux)

Pope says financial reforms are working, wants anti-nuke stance in catechism

Inés San Martín|Nov 26, 2019|7 Min Read

Pope Francis lays flowers during a visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. (Gregorio Borgia/AP via Crux)

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Pope in Japan condemns those who invoke peace, but keep nuclear arms

Inés San Martín|Nov 24, 2019|5 Min Read

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting for peace at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 24, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pope calls money spent on nukes ‘an affront crying out to heaven’

Inés San Martín|Nov 24, 2019|6 Min Read

In this Nov. 16, 2019, photo, a man walks by a poster of Pope Francis at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan. Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, ground zero for the Christian experience in a nation where the Catholic leader once dreamed of living as a missionary. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP via Crux)

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Nuclear disarmament to be focus of Pope’s visit to Japan

Inés San Martín|Nov 23, 2019|5 Min Read

A woman sets a floating candle lantern on the river Aug. 6, 2015, in Hiroshima, Japan, in observance of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. Pope Francis' top aide made no secret of what will be on the pope's mind when he visits Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 24: "the total elimination of nuclear weapons." (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

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No nukes: Pope expected to take aim at new arms race during Japan trip

Cindy Wooden|Nov 7, 2019|4 Min Read

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