” “The Scottish Catholic cardinal Keith O’ Brien and the chairman of the “Church of Scotland”, bishop Alan McDonald, condemned the decision of the British Government not to listen to the appeal made over the last few months for dismantling the nuclear deterrent and allocating the funds to aids and development. "The use of weapons of mass destruction is a crime against God and against humanity which should never happen”, stated the cardinal. "Since it is immoral to use weapons of mass destruction in an act of war, it is equally immoral to store, cram them and renew them because these deeds, far from eradicating the causes of war, make them worse", stated the cardinal. Over these days, the Catholic body “Pax Christi” wrote to the over seventy Catholic MPs, expressing concern for the government’s nuclear policy. Under the British law, the Prime Minister can decide to replace the nuclear arsenal without consulting Parliament, but the Catholic militants want the MPs to be entitled to vote on the topic. The Catholic militant Sarah Hipperson called the Government’s plans "non democratic". According to some militants, the decision of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown breaches the obligations undertaken by the British Government when it signed the Treaty of Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. ” ” ” “
