null / KREML, ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Four Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Japan called for G7 leaders to take action against nuclear weapons amid a "more dangerous" arms race and an escalated threat of nuclear war."We strongly urge world leaders at the G7 Summit to show by example how international leadership is ready, willing, and able to work with nuclear weapons and nonnuclear weapons states to ensure no country or city ever suffers the horrors of nuclear war again," said the four bishops in a May 15 letter to G7 leaders.Signing the letter were Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle and Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, joined by Archbishop Peter Michiaki Nakamura of Nagasaki and Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama of Hiroshima.The two U.S. bishops archdioceses have major connections to nuclear weapons. The letter said they are "the spiritual leaders of the diocese with the most spending on nuclear weapon
With the Supreme Court allowing an Illinois assault weapons ban to stay in place, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has reiterated his call, and that of the body of U.S. bishops, for the entire country to adopt legislation of the same kind.
The letter is signed by Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe, Archbishop Etienne of Seattle, and Archbishop Michiaki Nakamura and Bishop Mitsuru Shirahama of Nagasaki.
(OSV News) Two U.S. and two Japanese bishops have issued a joint letter to leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations, calling on them to take concrete steps toward ending the use of nuclear weapons.The G7 leaders representing the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.K., France, Canada and Italy are meeting May 19-21 in Hiroshima, Japan, the hometown of that nation s prime minister, Fumio Kishida. We strongly urge world leaders at the G7 Summit to show by example how international leadership i