Action des citoyens pour le désarmement nucléaire (ACDN) salutes the election of Pope Leo XIV and rejoices that he began his first speech by calling for a "peace without weapons, a peace disarming" in a world which greatly needs this.
The origins, the personality and the rich experience of Robert Francis Prevost allow us to think that he will be able to use the Catholic Church, "a Church that progresses and seeks for peace and charity", in the service of peace between peoples and solidarity (...)
Francis, a Pope who was human and disturbing, ecologist and anti-nuclear
Media Release ACDN, 21 April 2025
The death of Pope Francis is a loss not only for the Catholics but also for all humankind. Setting aside some regrets one could have on certain points, we can call him a fundamentally good man, full of humour, of a great simplicity - a man close to the poor, to the oppressed, to the many victims of social injustice, international violence, and war - a man distant from the powerful and their obsessions, concerned for peace and fraternity, preoccupied by (...)
Red Alert 89 seconds to Doomsday A terrible warning
The scientists of the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" are sounding the knell. Will they at last be heard? They keep resetting the "Doomsday Clock" by noting the events of the previous year. In 1991, after the Cold War ended, they placed the long hand of the clock at 17 minutes to midnight. Since then, it has moved only forward. In 2015 it stood at 3 minutes to midnight; in 2017 at 2 minutes; in 2020 100 seconds (as announced in January, a month before the invasion of Ukraine!). And now it (...)
