Twenty Dublin priests and the Archbishop prayed for peace in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan on November 4. In his homily the Archbishop Dermot Farrell said “One cannot come to this place, this Cathedral, and the church of which it is the centre, without thinking of the horrific suffering that was inflicted on the people of this city when the atomic bomb was dropped here, on August 9, 1945. The events here, and in Hiroshima a few days before, were a tragedy that belie description, a horror that must never be repeated.”
The context for the trip is the 80th-anniversary commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this year, which have drawn Catholic delegations from around the world.
