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2022
Holy See echoes Pope‘s plea to end madness of war and ban nuclear arms
Catholic atomic bomb survivors from Nagasaki share personal stories
U.S. Bishops’ Chairman for International Justice and Peace Condemns Threats to Use Nuclear Weapons
Threat Of Nuclear Weapons To The Human Family Continues 60 Years After Cuban Missile Crisis
Interfaith Groups United in Call for Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Archbishop Wester embarks on the long path to end the nuclear threat
Pope Francis: A world free of nuclear weapons is necessary and possible
"The Catholic case for eliminating nuclear weapons"
"Thomas Merton can still teach us a lot about nuclear war"
Cardinal Parolin: ‘Disarmament needed for integral security after pandemic
2021
Archbishop John C. Wester, Living in the Light of Christ's Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament
The Kroc Cast: Peace Studies Conversations, "A Conversation with Nickolas Roth of the Stimson Center" (podcast)
Blaise Cupich, "We must end the nuclear threat before it ends us"
William P. George, "'Tongues of Fire': Hiroshima as Hell and a New Pentecost?"
Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, "Advancing Integral Disarmament in Times of Pandemic" (webinar)
Investor Advocates for Social Justice, "Peace and Demilitarization: Faith-Based Investors Engaging Defense Contractors and Financiers" (webinar)
2020
Drew Christiansen and Carole Sargent (eds.), A World Free From Nuclear Weapons (link to publisher's book page)
Joseph J. Fahey, "Catholic Conscience and Nuclear Weapons," Journal of Social Encounters
Kenneth Himes, "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75th Anniversary Reflections," Asian Horizons
Drew Christiansen, SJ, "75 years after Hiroshima, how can we work toward Pope Francis' vision?" America
Margaraet Pfeil, "I Used to Believe in a Just War, but I Don't Anymore," Sojourners
Catholic Commemorate 75 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (webcast)
75 Years after the War – A Peace Message from the Catholic Bishops of Japan: Protect all life, Peace is the path of hope
Statement from U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace Committee on Nuclear Disarmament
Maryann Cusimano Love, "The Papal Vision: Beyond the Bomb"
Charles Geisler, "Twin inconvenient truths: nuclear arms and climate change"
2019
Pope Francis, Apostolic Journey to Japan, Address on Nuclear Weapons
Pope Francis, Apostolic Journey to Japan, Address at Meeting for Peace
Peter-John Pearson, Southern African Bishops' Parliamentary Liaison Office, Briefing Paper for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Day
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement on Nuclear Weapons
Kroc Cast Podcast, Jerry Powers, Tobias Winright, and Maryann Cusimano Love, on Pope Francis's Apostolic Journey to Japan
Kroc Cast Podcast, Jerry Powers, George Lopez, and Dr. James Mueller, on future of the movement toward nuclear disarmament
German Commission for Justice and Peace, "Outlawing Nuclear Weapons as the Start of Nuclear Disarmament"
2018
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Religious Leader Advocacy for Nuclear Disarmament
Drew Christiansen, "The Church Says 'No' to Nuclear Weapons: Pastoral and Moral Implications," La Civilità Cattolica
Maryann Cusimano Love, "Trump broke the Iran deal. Can the church help reduce tensions?" America Magazine
2017
David Cortright, "Security without Nuclear Weapons"
Gerard Powers, "The Holy See's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament"
Maryann Cusimano Love, "Resurrection Politics and Banning the Bomb"
Pope Francis, Address to participants in the International Symposium "Prospects for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament"
Oscar Cantu (USCCB), Letter Regarding the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
Tobias Winright, "In Pursuit of the Human Factor: Are the Traditional Principles of a 'Just War' Relevant in an Age of Nuclear Weapons?" The Tablet
USCCB and CCEE, "Nuclear Disarmament: Seeking Human Security"
Oscar Cantu (USCCB), "Letter to Secretary of State Tillerson on Nuclear Disarmament"
2015
Nuclear Threat Initiative, "The Pope and the Bomb" (video)
Gerard F. Powers, "From Nuclear Deterrence to Disarmament: Evolving Catholic Perspectives," Arms Control Today
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, "From Nuclear Deterrence to Disarmament: Evolving Catholic Perspectives" (audio, video, transcripts)
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