Product Description

This 58 minute videotaped production features the following participants: Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and co-founder of the Community of Peace People. Fr. George Zabelka (deceased), 1945 Catholic Chaplin to the Atomlc Bomb Crews. The 509th Composite Group were responsible for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, Eastern Rite Catholic Priest, former lawyer and founder/director of the Center for the Study of and Practice of Christian Nonviolence at the University of Notre Dame. Coming from different backgrounds and witnessing injustice and violence first hand, each participant describes how they were converted to Gospel Nonviolence. They also discuss the urgent need for the Christian Churches, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox, to return to Jesus' teaching of nonviolent love of friend and enemy.