Nuclear Weapons

Pope Leo has a 25-point net favorable margin among Americans overall, with 41% favorable, 16% unfavorable and 43% saying they have no opinion of the pontiff.

Several U.S. and Japanese Catholic bishops seeking nuclear disarmament are expressing both urgency and wariness as the U.N. head admits “arms control is dying.”

The U.S. bishops’ president said that President Donald Trump threatening Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” without a deal was morally unjustifiable.

As global tensions soar, Pope Leo XIV and USCCB president Archbishop Paul S. Coakley are calling for action.

The Doomsday Clock — a model indicating humanity’s risk of self-destruction — has edged to 85 seconds to midnight, its sponsoring group announced Jan. 27.

“The cries of those in need and in vulnerable situations, especially children, are coming from too many places around the world.”

Amid a global arms race, ending the threat of nuclear war — and even the testing of nuclear weapons — is imperative, said the Holy See’s diplomat to the United …

“We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating and using nuclear weapons.”

A Franciscan monastery that survived an atomic bombing, the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, young adult groups inspired by Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and more were in our news coverage …

(OSV News) — Ahead of his third “Pilgrimage of Peace” to Japan to mark the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Archbishop John C. Wester spoke with OSV …