NEWS RELEASE: August 25, 2023 Contacts: Leonard Eiger (360) 375-3207; Rodney Brunelle (425) 485-7030; Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 On August 21, and continuing for four weeks, billboards in Seattle and Tacoma are displaying the following paid advertisement: THE USE… AND POSSESSION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS IMMORAL. – Pope Francis. Get them out of Puget Sound! The billboards serve as a public service announcement—informing the reader of the immorality of nuclear weapons and the grave threat they pose to humanity. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action joined with Pax Christi USA to purchase the four billboards with a message from Pope Francis, declaring […]
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Archbishop Hunthausen: A Lesson on Faith & Disarmament
By Leonard Eiger Originally published by the National Catholic Reporter on Aug 23, 2021 “I am grateful for having been invited to speak to you on disarmament because it forces me to a kind of personal disarmament. This is a subject I have thought about and prayed over for many years. I can recall vividly hearing the news of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. I was deeply shocked. I could not then put into words the shock I felt from the news that a city of hundreds of thousands of people had been devastated by a single bomb. Hiroshima challenged […]
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FAITH AND DISARMAMENT*
On June 12, 1981 Seattle’s Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen spoke to a gathering at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and gave what has come to be known as the “Faith and Disarmament” speech. Frank Fromherz, who wrote “A Disarming Spirit: the Life of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen,” called Hunthausen’s message that day, “a prayerful invitation to examine personal and collective conscience on great moral questions regarding nuclear arms.” In his speech, Hunthausen referred to the Trident nuclear weapon system at the Bangor naval base just 20 miles west of Seattle as “the Auschwitz of Puget Sound.” In reflecting back on […]
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