People visit the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan on August 4, 2025. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
On August 4, a display of the Pope Francis’s message and candleholder given to Hiroshima City is seen at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
The "Flame of Peace" is seen at Hiroshima Peace Park on Aug. 4, 2025. This flame has been burning since it was lit on Aug. 1, 1964, and is a symbol of the wish for the flame to "keep burning until the day nuclear weapons disappear from the Earth." (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
On Aug. 5, 2025, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui after a meeting with representatives from four archdioceses and Catholic universities in the United States. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
During an August 5 meeting with the mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, the U.S. archbishops and university representatives listen to the mayor's presentation on Hiroshima's initiatives "Promoting a culture of Peace".(Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington and Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, look at a display of photos and messages from Pope Francis' visit to Hiroshima in 2019. ( Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
A Japanese choir performs at a peace event hosted on Aug. 5, 2025 by the Diocese of Hiroshima that was part of a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan by U.S. archbishops and by students and leaders from U.S. Catholic universities coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
At right, Hiroshi Kanamoto – who was nine months old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 – receives flowers at a peace event hosted on Aug. 5, 2025 by the Diocese of Hiroshima that was part of a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan by U.S. archbishops and by students and leaders from U.S. Catholic universities coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kanamoto is a member of Nihon Hidankyo, the group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
The U.S. archbishops participating in a Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki included (at center from left to right) Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington; Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; and Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle. They were among pilgrimage participants at a peace event on Aug. 5, 2025 hosted by the Diocese of Hiroshima where atomic bombing survivors were honored. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, at left, speaks at a dialogue on Aug. 5, 2025 hosted by the Diocese of Hiroshima during a Pilgrimage of Peace to Hiroshima and Nagasaki by four U.S. archbishops and by leaders and students from U.S. Catholic universities that coincided with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of those two cities in Japan. From left to right are Cardinal McElroy; Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bishop John Baptist Jung Shin-chul of the Diocese of Incheon in South Korea; and Bishop Edgar Gacutan of the Diocese of Sendai in Japan. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, at left, speaks at a dialogue on Aug. 5, 2025 hosted by the Diocese of Hiroshima during a Pilgrimage of Peace to Hiroshima and Nagasaki by four U.S. archbishops and by leaders and students from U.S. Catholic universities that coincided with the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of those two cities in Japan. From left to right are Cardinal McElroy; Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bishop John Baptist Jung Shin-chul of the Diocese of Incheon in South Korea; and Bishop Edgar Gacutan of the Diocese of Sendai in Japan. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
A joint statement, "Toward Solidarity to Protect All Life" is presented in three languages, English, Korean and Japanese by Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle; Bishop Simon Kim Ju-young of Chuncheon, South Korea; and Archbishop Peter Michiaki Nakamura of Nagasaki, Japan, at a peace event on Aug. 5, 2025 hosted by the Diocese of Hiroshima where atomic bombing survivors were honored. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington and Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago process to the altar at the beginning of a Peace Memorial Mass at the Memorial Cathedral for World Peace in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 5, 2025. They were part of a Pilgrimage of Peace to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of those cities. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
Japanese students welcome U.S. archbishops to Hiroshima during a Peace Memorial Mass on Aug. 5, 2025 at the Memorial Cathedral for World Peace. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada)
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