Religious quotes and news – July 3, 2022

Nuclear bombs are immoral

Addressing “the first meeting of states parties to the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons”, Pope Francis said: “Nuclear weapons are costly and dangerous. They represent a ‘risk multiplier’ that provides only an illusion of peace. The use of nuclear weapons, and their mere possession, is immoral. Trying to defend and ensure stability and peace through a false sense of security and a ‘balance of terror’, sustained by a mentality of fear and mistrust, inevitably ends up poisoning relationships between peoples and obstructing any possible form of real dialogue.”

On clerical garb

In an article in La Croix titled “High fashion and the Catholic Clergy”, Christoph Henning wrote: “In a laicised and secularised society, ‘the young generation can express the desire for identity through a lost fantasy, the symbol of reviving the past,’ explains Fra Ambrosio [Dominican friar Alberto Fabio Ambrosio]. But not in the archdiocese of Toulouse. ‘Wearing the cassock is not permitted in the seminary, it is the law in force,’ Archbishop Guy de Kerimel recently told his candidates for the priesthood. It seems priests who wear a simple black or gray shirt with a...