NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE SAYS FROM ROME; ‘I BELIEVE WE ARE AT AN IMPORTANT AND HOPEFUL TURNING POINT IN HUMAN HISTORY FROM VIOLENCE TO NONVIOLENCE’ – FROM WAR TO PEACE
It was a joy for me to join eighty people from around the World meeting in Rome ll/12th April, 2016, to contribute to the important discussion ‘Nonviolence and Just Peace Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence’. Members of the three day event co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Catholic Peace Movement Organization, Pax Christi, strongly called on Pope Francis ‘to share with the world an encyclical on nonviolence and Just Peace; and on the Church to ‘no longer use or teach ‘just war theory’; and continue advocating for the abolition of war and nuclear weapons’. The statement of Appeal to the Pope also said: ‘we believe there is no ‘just war’. Too often the ‘just war theory’ has been used…