Mahony Will Speak at Memorial Service in Hiroshima
The Most Rev. Roger M. Mahony, who will formally be installed next month as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, will represent the National Conference of Catholic Bishops at a memorial service in Hiroshima Monday on the eve of 40th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of that Japanese city.
Mahony will deliver a message from Bishop James W. Malone, president of the bishops’ conference, extending greetings to the Catholic-sponsored service in Japan.
Malone’s message, released in advance in Washington, said the world’s nations have an “immediate obligation” to “move away from nuclear deterrence with all its risks of failure and with its morally debilitating assent to the possibility of repeating Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
While in Japan, Mahony will also visit Nagasaki, the other Japanese city devastated by an atomic bomb in World War II.
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