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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.

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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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