{"id":1254,"date":"2019-11-24T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:56:52","slug":"pope-francis-at-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-speaks-on-the-gross-immorality-of-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis &#8211; at Hiroshima and Nagasaki &#8211; speaks on the gross immorality of nuclear weapons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eee3ef200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope francis at Nagasaki\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eee3ef200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4eee3ef200b-250wi\" style=\"width: 205px;\" title=\"Pope francis at Nagasaki\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure where he stopped first (UPDATE &#8211; stopped at Nagasaki first) &#8211; these are each three minutes long. The first is at Hiroshima &#8211; 80,000 instant deaths and 60,000 later.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pChlH2SH2gw\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>And here he&#39;s at Nagasaki &#8211; by the way, the center of Catholicism in Japan and a place where many were martyred in past centuries. The bomb landed on the edge of the Catholic enclave, killing 40% of the Catholics in Nagasaki. According to the WSJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-in-nagasaki-calls-for-global-nuclear-disarmament-11574572436\">&quot;The pope also visited a memorial in Nagasaki for 26 missionaries and Japanese Catholics who were crucified during a crackdown on the religion in the 16th century.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvGaHkRuVGw\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure where he stopped first (UPDATE &#8211; stopped at Nagasaki first) &#8211; these are each three minutes long. The first is at Hiroshima &#8211; 80,000 instant deaths and 60,000 later.&#0160; &#0160; And here he&#39;s at Nagasaki &#8211; by the way, the center of Catholicism in Japan and a place where many were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}