Seeds Will Grow

Cross-posting this Video letter on Nuclear Disarmament from Archbishop John C. Wester, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which he sent to the Catholic Worker National Gathering in Chicago, Oct. 4-6 2024.

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We know more about war than we know about peace –
more about killing than we know about living.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
– Omar Bradley, World War II General

“Our local church needs to be at the table of peace to talk about and advocate for verifiable multilateral nuclear disarmament.”
-Archbishop John C. Wester

For more, read:

• The Archbishop’s pastoral letter on this topic
• The Bishops’ partnership for a world free of nuclear weapons
• President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Peace Speech at American University in Washington D.C.

What conversations can you start about this urgent topic in your circles?