Nuclear Weapons Documents
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
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?"
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
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)
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
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement on Nuclear Weapons
2018
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"
Oscar Cantu (USCCB), Letter Regarding the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
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)
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