On November 29, 2023, the 34th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day, and in conjunction with the Second Meeting of the State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the Archbishop of Santa Fe John C. Wester gave a homily on nuclear disarmament at Our Church of the Savior near the United Nations. Dorothy Day was a life-long anti-nuclear weapons activist and is now being considered for canonization by the Catholic Church.
On December 1, 2023, on behalf of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Santa Fe and Seattle dioceses, Archbishop John C. Wester delivered a statement to the full plenary of the Second Meeting of the State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The statement holds international leaders accountable for demonstrable progress toward nuclear disarmament by August 2025, the 80th anniversaries of the atomic bombings.
