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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, March 5,1981
In Hiroshima,
Pope Pleads For Disarmament
HIROSHIMA, Japan (NC) -• On the third day of his
four-day visit to Japan, Pope John Paul II went to
Hiroshima, where more than 100,000 people died from
the effects of a four-ton A-bomb blast on Aug. 6,1945.
Under a light snowfall, he used nine languages to make
a worldwide appeal “on behalf of life, on behalf of
humanity, on behalf of the future.”
The pope coupled his call for peace with condemnations
of nuclear war and the arms race.
“To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war,” he
said.
Governmental, political and economic leaders should
“promise our fellow human beings that we will work
untiringly for disarmament and the banishing of all
nuclear weapons,” the pope said.
Addressing about 10,000 people at Hiroshima’s Peace
Memorial Park, Pope John Paul stood before the park’s
memorial monument to atomic bomb victims, a black
stone coffin bearing the names of nearly 100,000 people
and the inscription, “Please sleep in peace, for the error
will not be repeated.”
The 60-year-old pope, clad in a heavy white overcoat,
bore a pensive and often pained expression as he toured
various sections of the Peace Memorial Park, which
includes the skeletal remains of the bomb-ravaged former
Hiroshima Hall for the Promotion of Industries and a
prayer fountain built in 1964 as an offering to the souls of
the bomb victims who died begging for water.
Excerpts from his talk follow:
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“War is the work of man. War is destruction of human
life. War is death.
“Nowhere do these truths impose themselves upon us
more forcefully than in this city of Hiroshima, at this
peace memorial. Two cities will forever have their names
linked together, two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, as the only cities in the world that have had the
ill fortune to be a reminder that man is capable of
destruction beyond belief. . .
“... I bow my head as I recall the memory of
thousands of men, women and children who lost their
lives in that one terrible moment, or who for long years
carried in their bodies and minds those seeds of death
which inexorably pursued their process of destruction.
The final balance of the human suffering that began here
has not been fully drawn up, nor has the total human cost
been tallied, especially when one sees what nuclear war
has done - and could still do - to our ideas, our attitudes
and our civilization.
“To remember the past is to commit oneself to the
future. I cannot but honor and applaud the wise decision
of the authorities of this city that the memorial recalling
the first nuclear bombing should be a monument to peace.
By so doing, the city of Hiroshima and the whole people
of Japan have forcefully expressed their hope for a
peaceful world and their conviction that man who wages
war can also successfully make peace. From this city, and
from the event its name recalls, there has originated a new
worldwide consciousness against war, and a fresh
determination to work for peace. . .
“ ... To remember the past is to commit oneself to the
future. I evoke before you the memory of Aug. 6, 1945,
so that we may better grasp the meaning of the present
challenge. Since that fateful day, nuclear stockpiles have
grown in quantity an in destructive power. Nuclear
weaponry continues to be built, tested and deployed. The
total consequences of full-scale nuclear war are impossible
to predict, but even if a mere fraction of the available
weapons were to be used, one has to ask whether the
inevitable escalation can be imagined, and whether the
very destruction of humanity is not a real possibility. I
wish to repeat here what I said to the United Nations
General Assembly:
‘The continual preparations for war demonstrated by
the production of ever more numerous, powerful and
sophisticated weapons in various countries show that
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there is a desire to be ready for war, and being ready
means being able to start it. It also means taking the risk
that sometime, somewhere, somehow, someone can set in
motion the terrible mechanism of general destruction.’
“To remember the past is to commit oneself to the
future. To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war.
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. To
remember what the people of this city suffered is to
renew our faith in man, in his capacity to do what is good,
in his freedom to choose what is right, in his
determination to turn disaster into a new beginning. In
the face of the man-made calamity that every war is, one
must affirm and reaffirm, again and again, that the waging
of war is not inevitable or unchangeable. Humanity is not
destined to self-destruction.
“Clashes of ideologies, aspirations and needs can and
must be settled and resolved by means other than war and
violence. Humanity owes it to itself to settle differences
and conflicts by peaceful means. The great spectrum of
problems facing the many peoples in varying stages of
cultural, social, economic and political development gives
rise to international tension and conflict. It is vital for
humanity that these problems should be solved in
accordance with ethical principles of equity and justice
enshrined in meaningful agreements and institutions. The
international community should thus give itself a system
of law that will regulate international relations and
maintain peace, just as the rule of law protects national
order.
“Those who cherish life on earth must encourage
governments and decision-makers in the economic and
social fields to act in harmony with the demands of peace
rather than out of narrow self-interest. Peace must always
be the aim: peace pursued and protected in all
circumstances. Let us not repeat the past, a past of
violence and destruction. Let us embark upon the steep
and difficult path of peace, the only path that befits
human dignity, the only path that leads to the true
fulfillment of the human destiny, the only path to a
future in which equity, justice and solidarity are realities
and not just distant dreams.
“And so, on this very spot where, 35 years ago, the life
of so many people was snuffed out in one fiery moment, I
wish to appeal to the whole world on behalf of life, on
behalf of humanity, on behalf of the future . . .
“ .. . To everyone I repeat the words of the prophet:
“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Is.
2,4).
“To those who believe in God, I say: Let us be strong
in his strength that infinitely surpasses our own; let us be
united in the knowledge that he calls us to unity; let us be
aware that love and sharing are not faraway ideals but the
road to enduring peace - the peace of God.
“And to the Creator of nature and man, of truth and
beauty I pray:
“Hear my voice, for it is the voice of the victims of all
wars and violence among individuals and nations.
“Hear my voice, for it is the voice of all children who
suffer and will suffer when people put their faith in
weapons and war.
“Hear my voice when I beg you to instill into the
hearts of all human beings the wisdom of peace, the
strength of justice and the joy of fellowship.
“Hear my voice, for I speak for the multitudes in every
country and in every period of history who do not want
war and are ready to walk the road of peace.
“Hear my voice and grant insight and strength so that
we may always respond to hatred with love, to injustice
with total dedication to justice, to need with the sharing
of self, to war with peace.
“O God, hear my voice and grant unto the world your
everlasting peace.”
APPEAL FOR PEACE - A flock of birds takes
flight as the pope waits to speak at Peace
Memorial Park. “To remember Hiroshima is to
commit oneself to peace,” he told the audience in
the city where more than 100,000 people died
from the first atomic bomb attack.
John Paul II Visits America’s
‘Last Frontier 9
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NC) - Pope John Paul II came
to America’s “last frontier” Feb. 26 for a four-hour visit
on the way home from his tour of the Far East.
The papal plane touched down at the Anchorage
airport at 10:40 a.m. after crossing the international
dateline. He left Nagasaki, Japan, at about 10 p.m. the
same day.
Several American churchmen, including three cardinals,
and a personal delegation of President Ronald Reagan
greeted the pope. Most joined him in a two-and-a-half-mile
motorcade into the city.
“No future pope will travel further from the Eternal
City, unless he chooses a space ship to the moon, a
challenge which many feel would be very tempting to
your holiness,” joked Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of
Anchorage in a welcoming talk.
About 40,000 people - more than the total number of
Catholics in the huge state - came to the outdoor Mass.
The 24-degree temperature was milder than the
weather in Nagasaki hours earlier when Pope John Paul
celebrated an outdoor Mass in a snowstorm.
The U.S. prelates concelebrating the Mass were
Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia, Humberto Medeiros
of Boston and John Cody of Chicago, the four bishops of
Alaska and Bishop Mark Hurley of Santa Rosa, Calif., the
Anchorage archbishop’s brother.
About 20 other bishops attended the Mass as did the
government delegation headed by labor Secretary
Raymond Donovan, a Catholic.
Those watching the Mass included four people aboard a
hot-air balloon which was later released in a tribute to the
first papal visit to Alaska.
“If we seek to deepen our relationship with the Father
in the Holy Spirit, then we should not be surprised to find
that we are misunderstood, opposed or even persecuted
for our beliefs,” Pope John Paul said in his homily at the
Mass of the Holy Spirit.
“Nine days ago I beatified Lorenzo Ruiz and his
companions in the Philippines. These holy men and
women knew well the meaning of Christ’s words: “If they
persecuted me, they will persecute you” (Jn. 15-20). But
despite the opposition they encountered, they trusted in
the guidance of the Holy Spirit to sustain them in the face
of suffering,” the pope said.
“Such faith lias also marked the history of the
missionaries in these Alaskan territories. They too met the
cross in the form of physical limitations, disappointments
and opposition in their efforts to spread the faith,” he
said. “Often their endeavors seemed to bear little results
in their own lifetime, but the seeds were planted for the
witness of a faith that is in evidence today.
“Dear brothers and sisters,” he said, “let us learn the
wisdom of the children of God to trust and hope in the
abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in the church. May we
never be confounded by the suffering that may come into
our lives, but seek rather to transform it in the light of the
cross of our Savior, Jesus Christ. May our confidence
always be in the Holy Spirit in order to discover in each
new situation an opportunity to extend Christ’s
redemptive love.”
He urged Alaskan Catholics - who number about
35,000 in a total population of 200,000 - to be
“increasingly sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s influence on
our actions and always ready to pray for his divine
assistance.”
The pope left Alaska after a brief dog-sled ride at the
airport. Because no snow was on the ground the sled had
to be put on wheels. While the pope was in Japan, his
aides sent word to Alaska that the pope wished to ride in
a dog-sled, traditionally a popular mode of transportation
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