May 21, 2014

Dominican Sisters Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert share smiles outside Jonah House in west Baltimore Jan. 12. When not in jail, their home is the faith-based community of peace activists. The women have been arrested dozens of times on charges related to their demonstrations against war and nuclear weapons. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

"There are two problems for our species' survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."

- Noam Chomsky, from an interview by Alyssa McDonald in The New Statesman, Sept. 13, 2010.

See also - Dominican nuns resist war in prayer, action to disarm nuclear arsenals by Dennis Sadowski / CNS

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