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Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (People of God) - Softcover

Book 25 of 27: People of God

Sargent, Carole

 
9780814637227: Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (People of God)

Synopsis

In July 2012, a Holy Child sister and two Catholic Workers committed the largest breach in US nuclear security history. They entered an enriched uranium facility armed with candles, bread, Bibles, and roses, to pray and paint peace slogans. As Transform Now Plowshares, they hoped to put nuclear weapons―which target civilians in violation of the Geneva Conventions and UN treaties―on trial, making international news. This book shares their discernments of conscience and the civil resistance legacy of Plowshares with its background of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker, while also engaging the work of the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville nine, and the recent Kings Bay Plowshares seven. Learn their stories and see the principles of Catholic Social Teaching in action.

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About the Author

Carole Sargent, PhD,is an associate of the Sacred Heart and founding faculty director of Georgetown University's office of scholarly publications. She helped RSCJ sisters establish Anne Montgomery House in Washington, DC, where Megan Rice, SCHJ, was a neighbor and friend. With Drew Christiansen, SJ, she coedited A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020), and she has published previous books with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She writes from the contemplative scholars' house she founded (www.publishingadvising.com/house).

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