Essay: Nuns against nuclear weapons – Plowshares protesters have fought for disarmament for over 40 years, going to prison for peace
In an article first published on The Conversation, CAROLE SARGENT, a US historian studying faith-based calls for nuclear disarmament, looks at the nuns who have been at the forefront of the movement…
US nun imprisoned over peace activism, Megan Rice, dies at 91
Rosemont, Pennsylvania, USAP Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91. Rice died of congestive heart failure on 10th October at Holy Child Center in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, according to her […]
Lifestory: Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and “peacemaker in a hostile world”
In an article first published on The Conversation, CAROL SARGENT, of Georgetown University, writes about the life of activist nun Sister Ardeth Platte who died last month at the age of 84…
Judge sentences 80-year-old Catholic activist for breaking into nuclear submarine base
RNS A US District Court judge has sentenced an 80-year-old Catholic peace activist to time already served for trespassing onto the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St Marys, Georgia, more than two years ago as part of a symbolic nuclear disarmament action. Elizabeth McAlister, a former nun with the Religious of the Sacred Heart […]