We should never forget that war is always evil and that even when a war we fight is just, our conduct of it may not be.
Stuart Wolf: Called to holiness: The last atomic bomb
Wester: Nobel Peace Prize for Japanese atomic bomb survivors ‘fitting’ amid global tensions
The naming of a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient is “fitting … during this time of heightened geopolitical tension,” said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who has traveled to Japan on several peace pilgrimages and also released a 2022 pastoral letter on nuclear disarmament.
Catholic survivors of Nagasaki bombing tell their stories on Chicago visit
Archbishop Takami, now retired archbishop of Nagasaki, was part of a small peace delegation of atomic bomb survivors that visited the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University Sept. 28 for a Blessed Are the Peacemakers event.
Catholic prayers for peace interrupted after alleged assault on officer
The activists called for peace through eliminating nuclear weapons and peace from environmental sins committed against the planet.
A world without nuclear weapons is possible, pope says in Japan
Pope Francis urged a renewed commitment to disarmament and to the international treaties designed to limit or eliminate nuclear weapons in Hiroshima, Nov. 24.