Abstract

Writing from perspectives of social ethics, human rights, international social justice, peacebuilding, and disarmament (James O’Sullivan) and antinuclear activist Roman Catholic sisters (Carole Sargent), the authors provide shared experiences with the late Drew Christiansen SJ. They state that consensus even in the presence of complexity, and his gifts for collaborative action, were his qualities most worthy of emulation. They then recount key moments in his ministry, including at the US Bishops’ conference in its various forms, his work on key pastoral letters such as “The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace,” his work as editor-in-chief of America: The Jesuit Review, and his ability to advise the Magisterium on the environment, nuclear disarmament, and on wide ranging, global issues of justice and peace. The article engages his work in Haiti, Guatemala, the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, and Croatia), with the Latin Patriarch (now emeritus) of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Task Force, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, and as part of the Vatican delegation to negotiate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons leading to the 2017 conference, “Prospects for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament.”