By Devin Watkins
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on Wednesday hosts a webinar to push for global nuclear disarmament.
It comes on the heels of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical
Fratelli tutti, in which he calls for international peace and stability to be based on mutual trust rather than the threat of mutual destruction.
According to Prof. Gerard Powers, a member of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission’s task force for security, the event was organized for a three-fold purpose.
The Coordinator of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network told Vatican Radio that the first goal of the webinar is to present the recent publication of a book entitled “A World Free from Nuclear Weapons”. The volume contains the papers from a major symposium held by the Vatican in 2017 to relaunch efforts toward creating a world free of nuclear weapons.