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What’s Happening at the UN? February 18th, 2010
Commission on Social Development
The 48th Session of the Commission for Social Development met at UN HQ in New York February 3-12. The theme was “Social Integration,” taking into account its relationship with poverty eradication, full employment and decent work for all. Updated information…
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US Prelate Highlights Church’s Opposition to Nuclear Weapons February 18th, 2010
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, a member of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Committee on International Justice and Peace, reiterated the church’s opposition to nuclear weapons in an address to the Global Zero summit in Paris earlier this month. The gathering brought together 200 international leaders to develop strategies to eliminate nuclear weapons.
The archbishop underlined the Church’s moral teaching on nuclear weapons, based on its commitment to protect human life. Drawing on the principles of just war teaching, Archbishop O’Brien stated, “Nuclear war-fighting is rejected in Church teaching because it cannot ensure noncombatant immunity and the likely destruction and lingering radiation would violate the principle of proportionality.”
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Carl Kabat Released from Jail – Took Stand in His Own Defense December 23rd, 2009
Carl Kabat, OMI – jailed for an anti-nuclear protest in Colorado – was released on Tuesday. He took the stand in his own defense, and was sentenced to time served and released.
Fr. Kabat fired his attorneys and decided to say his peace on the stand. In a written question during their delliberations, one juror asked why he wouldn’t rather just protest outside the perimeter of the fence peacefully.
“Why in the Civil Rights (era) did they march down the street when they said, ‘You can’t march down the street?’ Because it’s wrong,” Kabat answered. “I guess I think it’s up to us to try to get rid of these things.”
Deputy District Attorney David Skarka asked him simply, “Are you above the law?
Kabat replied: “All wrong law, yes. God’s law is above all these man-made things.”
Fr. Carl Kabat Protests Nuclear Weapons Once Again August 15th, 2009
Father Carl Kabat, OMI was whose work has been marked by anti-nuclear activism has been arrested for entering a missile silo facility in Colorado.
Priest arrested for breaching missile silo (Greeley Tribune)
Anti-nukes priest here readies for next arrest (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Pictures of Fr. Carl Kabat at Plowshares Witness at N-8, August 6, 2009
Statement to the Press from Fr Carl:
“The Roman Catholic Church, of which I am a priest, at the close of its Vatican Council II in 1965 condemned nuclear bombs as a crime against humanity and are to be condemned unreservedly.
Pax Christi opposes $150 billion nuclear weapon program December 18th, 2007
Pax Christi, the Catholic Peace movement, is launching a campaign opposed to “Complex 2030″ – a new $150 billion nuclear weapon program. The Bush Administration wants to upgrade the entire U.S. nuclear weapons complex by 2030 and to ensure the role of these immoral weapons for the indefinite future.
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Father Carl Kabat OMI: Witness To A Nuclear Empire September 18th, 2007
Father Carl Kabat, OMI visited the Oblate JPIC OFfice in Washington on September 6th. He was in town to speak at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House about witnessing to the Gospel of peace in a nuclear empire. Father Carl, a well known peace activist against nuclear weapons, talked about the challenges of global peace issues.
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