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news-000818		Bishops, Notre Dame and other universities encouraged by Shultz, Perry and Nunn commit to revitalizing Catholic engagement on nuclear disarmament | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame			.html	text/html	974	19	16	University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Bishops, Notre Dame and other universities encouraged by Shultz, Perry and Nunn commit to revitalizing Catholic engagement on nuclear disarmament Bishops, Notre Dame and other universities encouraged by Shultz, Perry and Nunn commit to revitalizing Catholic engagement on nuclear disarmament Published: April 28, 2014 Author: Paul Browne Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Citing the long-held opposition to nuclear arms of newly canonized Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., called for a “fresh examination of the ethics of nuclear weapons in today’s world” at the Colloquium on Revitalizing Catholic Engagement on Nuclear Disarmament, hosted April 24 to 25 (Thursday to Friday) by former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former Secretary of Defense William Perry at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. This narrow moral justification for nuclear weapons is based, in part, on the belief that deterrence will indeed deter, and that … is an increasingly uncertain assumption.” Bishop Richard Pates, a co-convenor with Father Jenkins of the colloquium and chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said, “The bishops have made the moral case for ultimate nuclear disarmament,” adding: “Shultz, Perry, Kissinger and Nunn have made the case for disarmament as a policy goal,	cache/news-000818.html	txt/news-000818.txt