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Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear
experts imagine a world free from nuclear weapons At a 2017 Vatican
conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume,
issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict
transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with
testimonies from witnesses. It is a companion volume to A World
Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament
(Georgetown University Press, 2020). Chapters from the perspectives
of missile personnel and the military chain of command,
industrialists and legislators, and citizen activists show how we
might achieve a nuclear-free world. Key to this transition is the
important role of public education and the mobilization of lay
movements to raise awareness and effect change. This essential
collection prepares military professionals, policymakers, everyday
citizens, and the pastoral workers who guide them, to make
decisions that will lead us to disarmament.
On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the
nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even
as a form of deterrence. At a Vatican conference of leaders in the
field of disarmament, he made it clear that the possession of the
bomb itself was immoral. A World Free from Nuclear Weapons presents
the pope's address and original testimony from Nobel Peace Prize
laureates, religious leaders, diplomats, and civil society
activists. These luminaries, which include the pope and a Hiroshima
survivor, make the moral case against possessing, manufacturing,
and deploying nuclear arms. Drew Christiansen, a member of the Holy
See delegation to the 2017 United Nations conference that
negotiated the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, helps readers to
understand this conference in its historical context. A World Free
from Nuclear Weapons is a critical companion for scholars of modern
Catholicism, moral theology, and peace studies, as well as
policymakers working on effective disarmament. It shows how the
Church's revised position presents an opportunity for global
leaders to connect disarmament to larger movements for peace,
pointing toward future action.
This in-depth look at Sr. Megan Rice, the octogenarian religious
sister and anti-nuclear weapons activist, highlights the life and
work of a bold modern-day advocate for peace. She was convicted for
her role in carrying out what the "New York Times" called "the
biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic
complex." After breaking into a nuclear weapons facility, Rice's
only comment at trial was "I regret I didn't do this 70 years
ago."Sr. Megan's faith in a world that can transform its resources
into sustainable, alternative methods doesn't end with her own
future behind prison walls. Her cause is great and her hope is even
greater.
From the People of God series. People of God is a brand-new series
of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers
a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important
twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some
now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and
weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways
that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible
and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own
day.
On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the
nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even
as a form of deterrence. At a Vatican conference of leaders in the
field of disarmament, he made it clear that the possession of the
bomb itself was immoral. A World Free from Nuclear Weapons presents
the pope's address and original testimony from Nobel Peace Prize
laureates, religious leaders, diplomats, and civil society
activists. These luminaries, which include the pope and a Hiroshima
survivor, make the moral case against possessing, manufacturing,
and deploying nuclear arms. Drew Christiansen, a member of the Holy
See delegation to the 2017 United Nations conference that
negotiated the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, helps readers to
understand this conference in its historical context. A World Free
from Nuclear Weapons is a critical companion for scholars of modern
Catholicism, moral theology, and peace studies, as well as
policymakers working on effective disarmament. It shows how the
Church's revised position presents an opportunity for global
leaders to connect disarmament to larger movements for peace,
pointing toward future action.
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