On his way to prison, US Catholic activist advocates for COVID-19 prisoner release
US RNS On Thursday, Patrick O’Neill will report to the Federal Correctional Institution near Elkton, Ohio, to serve a 14-month sentence for breaking into a nuclear submarine base as part of a symbolic nuclear disarmament action he took up with six other Catholic pacifists more than two years ago. But on his way to prison, O’Neill […]
Catholic worker who broke into naval base to protest nuclear weapons sentenced in the US
RNS Patrick O’Neill, who together with Rev Stephen Kelly, cut a padlock to Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia to protest its stockpile of hundreds of Trident nuclear weapons two years ago, was sentenced Friday to 14 months in federal prison. O’Neill, a 64-year-old North Carolinian who runs a Catholic Worker House that offers destitute […]
US Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear base ask judge to drop the charges
RNS Seven Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year stood before a federal judge Wednesday to argue that the charges against them should be dismissed. The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to […]
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: IN THE US, SEVEN CATHOLIC ACTIVISTS ARE UNREPENTANT AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL FOR BREAKING INTO A NUCLEAR BASE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…