“If our gathering here today is to mean anything, it must mean that in fidelity to all those whose lives were destroyed or savagely damaged on August 6, 80 years ago, we refuse to live in such a world of nuclear proliferation and risk-taking. We will resist, we will organize, we will pray, we will not cease, until the world’s nuclear arsenals have been destroyed.”

— Cardinal Bob McElroy of Washington, DC, August 5, 2025, at the World Peace Memorial Cathedral  in Hiroshima, Japan.

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