ABSTRACT This article maps the papal peace witness’ support for a world free from nuclear weapons. Although the last concentration of scholarly work in this area dates back to the early and mid-1980s, now is a cogent time to update that scholarship by revisiting and critically assessing papal teachings and diplomatic actions that move towards banning nuclear weapons on Earth. Contemporary events motivating this article include the need to bridge the gap evident in US and global policy on nuclear weapons. Particularly relevant here is the current “everything on the table”-themed posturing, oddly mixing war and peace themes, active in the Trump administration’s policy of reinvigorating the USA’s nuclear arsenal in the face of challenge by the likes of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear ambitions for North Korea. Yet, at the same time a significant number of the members of the community of nations, including the Holy See, have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. To undertake the task of critically mapping papal support for a world free from nuclear weapons that made it almost a given that the Holy See would sign and ratify that treaty, the present article examines the contributions of contemporary popes from Pius XII to Francis. It focuses on how these popes named and addressed what they often characterized as the moral evils manifest in nuclear weapons, when focusing their efforts to rid the world of these human-generated existential threats.

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“只有虚假的安全感”：绘制和严格评估教皇对无核武器世界的支持

摘要本文描绘了教皇和平证人对无核武器世界的支持。尽管这方面的学术工作最集中于1980年代初和中期，但现在是通过重新研究和批判性地评估朝着禁止地球上的核武器的教皇教义和外交行动来更新该奖学金的紧要时机。促使本文发展的当代事件包括有必要弥合美国和全球核武器政策中明显的差距。在此特别相关的是当前以“一切摆在桌面上”为主题的姿态，奇怪地混合了战争与和平主题，在特朗普政府面对金正恩核野心之类的挑战时重振美国核武库的政策中很活跃对于朝鲜。然而，同时，包括罗马教廷在内的许多国际社会成员都签署了《禁止核武器条约》。为了完成对罗马教皇对一个没有核武器的世界的支持进行严格审查的任务，这几乎使教廷签署并批准了该条约，因此，本文考察了当代教皇从庇护十二世到弗朗西斯的贡献。它着重于这些教皇在努力消除世界上这些人为造成的生存威胁的努力时，如何命名和解决通常被称为道德邪恶的东西在核武器中的表现。为了完成对罗马教皇对一个没有核武器的世界的支持进行严格审查的任务，这几乎使教廷签署并批准了该条约，因此，本文考察了当代教皇从庇护十二世到弗朗西斯的贡献。它着重于这些教皇在努力消除世界上这些人为造成的生存威胁的努力时，如何命名和解决通常被称为道德邪恶的东西在核武器中的表现。为了完成对罗马教皇对一个没有核武器的世界的支持进行严格审查的任务，这几乎使教廷签署并批准了该条约，因此，本文考察了当代教皇从庇护十二世到弗朗西斯的贡献。它着重于这些教皇在努力消除世界上这些人为造成的生存威胁的努力时，如何命名和解决通常被称为道德邪恶的东西在核武器中的表现。