The USA dropped two atomic bombs on innocent civilians in two Japanese cities killing hundreds of thousands of civilians instantly and more later who suffered from burns and radiation sickness. Then as now, doing such a thing in an intentional way to civilians during what is called a “just war” was and is immoral. The justification was that killing all these people instantaneously by a bomb newly invented and never used would bring World War II to an end and save more lives than the innocent lives killed.
This kind of logic is used by abortionists who promote this horrible ideology. Kill innocent babies to preserve the rights of the mother and the abortion industry which supports so many people.
Nonetheless, a beautiful Pontifical Solemn Sung Mass was offered in Nagasaki in 1949 to commemorate and lament the bombings.
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Amazing the high altar survived intact and is usable. A post VII table altar would have been obliterated.
-- Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV for the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings. August, 6, 2025 A.D.
"...I hasten to reiterate the words so often used by my beloved predecessor Pope Francis: “War is always a defeat for humanity.”"
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Pope Leo XIV, June 18, 2025 A.D:
"The heart of the Church is torn apart by the cries that rise from places at war, in particular from Ukraine, Iran, Israel and Gaza.
"We must not get used to war! On the contrary, we must reject the allure of powerful and sophisticated weapons as a temptation.
"Indeed, in today’s war, 'by employing scientific weapons of every kind, their intrinsic cruelty threatens to lead those who fight to a barbarism far surpassing that of times past'" (Vatican Council II, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 79).
"Therefore, in the name of human dignity and international law, I repeat to those in charge what Pope Francis used to say: war is always a defeat!
"And with Pius XII: ‘Nothing is lost in peace, everything can be lost in war.'»\"
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Pope Leo XIV, July 23, 2025 A.D:
"We must encourage everyone to leave weapons behind, and to leave behind the money-making that is behind every war."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Truly the altar of the one, true.Sacrifice.
The other amazing thing about the photograph is that the clergy has on absolutely beautiful vestments. Either they were not at the location of the Cathedral or the sacristy somehow survived
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