I was given the last speaking spot of our symposium today. Below is the presentation I provided: August 6, 2025, Elizabeth University School of Music, Hiroshima, Japan Good afternoon, friends. As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, our world still yearns for peace. Read more…
This year’s pilgrimage to Japan to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki includes the Nuncio to Japan, Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, all bishops of Japan, four bishops from the US; Cardinal Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal McElroy from Washington DC, Archbishop Wester from Santa Fe Read more…
Something as catastrophic as the possibility of nuclear war is seldom thought about. And yet, the very real weapons of mass-destruction exist, as do plans for their potential use. The world population now lives under the unrealistic ‘political-think’ of deterrence. Meaning, that if anyone were actually irresponsible enough to launch Read more…
After the morning Memorial Ceremonies, we had a short break and then saw a few more sights here in Hiroshima today. Our first stop was a local parish, Gion Catholic Church, where we watched a short movie about the Jesuit Novitiate at the time of the atomic bombing in 1945. Read more…
How I wish I had the luxury of just one hour in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament to reflect upon all I saw and heard yesterday. From visiting with Setsuko Thurlow, one of the Hibakusha from that August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, to touring the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Read more…
Today I had the special honor to meet and visit with one of the hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Setsuko Thurlow was thirteen years old the day of the bombing. She was inside a building on the second floor, approximately one mile away from Read more…
On Friday of this week, many people came together to celebrate the Mass of Resurrection for one of our retired priests, Fr. Dan Colibraro. Father was born to Italian immigrant parents in Casper, Wyoming in 1922. He died early Tuesday morning, April 19. He has a younger sister, Sr. Mary Carlo, Read more…