Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, joined by Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle, is leading a 13-day peace pilgrimage to Japan.
In 2022, Archbishop Wester said that his archdiocese has “a special responsibility” to “help lead humanity toward nuclear weapons abolition,” as “more money is spent on nuclear weapons research and production in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe than any other diocese in the country because of the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories.”