Pope Francis on the anniversary of the bomb: 'A lasting warning to humanity'

c. 2015 Religion News Service

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Seventy years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Pope Francis on Sunday (August 9) described the bomb as a “lasting warning to humanity.”

Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Francis recalled the “horror and repulsion” aroused by the twin bombings of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, and Hiroshima, three days earlier.