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November 24, 2019

Honour martyrs and work for peace, Pope Francis says in Nagasaki

Pope Francis greets the crowd before celebrating Mass at the baseball stadium in Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 24, 2019.

NAGASAKI, Japan -- While the world knows Nagasaki as the site of a U.S. atomic bomb blast, for the Catholic Church it is also the site of one of the fiercest campaigns of anti-Christian persecution.

Published in Reflections
May 25, 2016

Drama, tears washed away at rededicated Toronto peace garden

Fr. Massey Lombardi joins Toronto Mayor John Tory in relighting the eternal flame at the peace garden in Nathan Phillips Square May 18.

TORONTO – The war over Toronto’s peace garden ended in sunshine, spring flowers and paper cranes from Hiroshima.

Published in Canada: Toronto-GTA
August 10, 2015

Pope Francis on the anniversary of the bomb: ‘A lasting warning to humanity’

This museum representation of a nuclear bombing shows burned skin peeling and hanging from hands Aug. 6 at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, Japan.

VATICAN CITY - Seventy years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Aug. 9 described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity.”

Published in International