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Article: Scottish bishop urges Catholics to oppose nuclear arsenal renewal.(NATION)(Peter Moran)
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- January 19, 2007
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A Scottish bishop has urged Catholics to oppose plans to renew Great Britain's nuclear arsenal.
Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen, Scotland, called on Catholics to tell legislators about the Catholic church's opposition to the proposals before the British Parliament's debate on plans to upgrade the submarine-based Trident nuclear weapons system.
Legislators are to debate the issue and vote on it in March.
In a pastoral letter read at Masses in Scotland Jan. 6 and 7, the bishop said that like King Herod plotting to kill the young Jesus, many people were still "plotting death for the innocent."
"The world's most powerful governments, ...