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Francis says nuclear weapons offer only illusion of peace
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.
In an unusual shared statement, two U.S. archbishops joined with the Japanese bishops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to call on the G-7 summit to "undertake concrete steps toward global, verifiable nuclear disarmament."