Pope Leo’s book calling for nuclear disarmament
The pope made the remarks in a foreword published July 21 for a forthcoming book, “Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,” which the Vatican Publishing House says will soon be released in English.
Pope Leo XIV said the conscience of just one person can “be worth the entire world” when it comes to preventing a nuclear catastrophe, in a new book foreword that also quotes an unpublished Bob Dylan song about the atomic bomb.
The pope made the remarks in a foreword published July 21 for a forthcoming book, “Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,” which the Vatican Publishing House says will soon be released in English.
In the essay, Leo cited lyrics from an unpublished 1963 song by Bob Dylan, “Go Away You Bomb,” and he praised the pacifist Servant of God Dorothy Day as an example of someone who worked for peace.