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Nation/World news briefs: Oct. 31, 2022
Russian priest says Catholics, including clerics, fear conscription
Street protests erupted in Russia after Putin’s Sept. 21 order for a nationwide call-up of 300,000 reservists after setbacks in the Ukraine war.
As anniversaries approach, Japan’s bishops call for prohibition of nukes
Catholic bishops in Japan are calling for the prohibition of nuclear weapons as they announce a 10-day prayer program marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Pope prints postcard illustrating the horror of war
As 2017 was drawing to a close, the horrors of war and people’s yearnings for peace were on Pope Francis’ mind and in his prayers.
Theologian inspires U.S. church 50 years after his death
There’s little doubt among the church’s deep thinkers that renowned theologian Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray continues to shape Catholic social thought and interaction today, 50 years after his death.