'The silence of Hiroshima and the cry of the Pope'
On Sunday, November 24, Pope Francis denounced the money squandered on the manufacture of atomic weapons as “an affront crying out to heaven".
Pope Francis’ words broke the great silence commemorating the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking in these two city-symbols of nuclear destruction, the Pope’s decisive condemnation of both the use and the possession of atomic weapons, marks a further development in the Church’s social teaching.