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Peace theme at Mass; "CONVINCING" CITY APPEAL emperor bows Another martyr TOKYO: Peace was Pope John Paul II's theme to Catholics gathered in a Tokyo stadium where he celebrated Mass in Japanese which he had learnt specialiy for his journey.
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"Christ, the peacemaker, gives the people of this earth the blessing of peace. They co-operate with it, through justice and love in all the circumstances of life," he said. "And so,Ihave set foot on the land that has known the special horror of destruction during the last war. "For the sake of this peace I wish to pray together with you on behalf of every brother or sister in your Japanese church and throughout the islands of Japan. "Here, where the memory and signs of the explosion of the first atomic bomb are living and obvious, the words of Christ cannot fail to take on a particular vividness: Peace be with you." he added. "These words must become a challenge. They must re-echo all the horror of the first warning.
"They must become an invocation, a categorical invocation to every possible co-operation by people on behalf of peace NAGASAKI: In the city of Japanese in the world. martyrs Pope John Paul had words for "To the co-operation of the people of another martyr — Polish Father Maximiall languages, all nations, all races and all lian Kolbe, who gave his life in Auschwitz religions, the people of all States and all so that a married man could go free. generations. Christ says: "My peace Igive Standing in the Naga- viction of faith, the same to you." Earlier he had asked 29 Buddhist and saki printing shop where c ommitment to Christ Shindo leaders to join the Catholic from 1930 to 1935 Father and the Gospel that set Church in its fight for human rights Kolbe worked as a Fran- him on his way to Japan, ciscan missionary, the and later to the starvaagainst abortion. tion bunker?" Pope John After ending his English-language talk, Pope said: Paul said. the pope switched to Japanese. "He was a modern mar- "There was no division "I would like to say more, but human language is at times so limited," he said in tyr, who did not hesitate in his life, in consistency, to witness for that love of no switching of direction, Japanese. I know however that you understand neighbour which Christ but only the expression the heart. And the aspirations of our held up as the distinctive of the same love in different circumstances." he hearts are pointing in the same direction. mark of a Christian. The pope's visit to the Emperor Hiro- "Was it not the same con- added. hito, which had raised some adverse comment from Japanese extremist circles, produced an absolute historic first. As the emperor stood as Pope John Paul boarded his car and began to move off, the emperor made a "bowing gesture" according to a Vatican representative. Traditionally the emperor once considered divine, never bows to anyone, including royalty.
NAGASAKI: "Your life here today is the most convincing appeal that could be addressed to all people of good will — the most convincing appeal against war and for peace," said Pope John Paul at the Hill of Mercy, a home for aged victims of the atomic bomb, conducted by Immaculate Heart Sisters.
Earlier at the site of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945 he said: "To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace." 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." Addressing about 10,000 people at Hiroshima's peace memorial park he declared, "Let us pledge ourselves to peace through justice — let us take a solemn decision, now, that was will never be tolerated or sought as a means of resolving differences." "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," the pope said. "Hear my voice," he prayed in closing the talk, "for it is the voice of the victims of all wars and violence among individuals and nations." He also stopped at the Nagasaki shrine of the 26 Japanese martyrs killed in 1597. The pope praised Japan's "rich harvest of martyrs" HIROSHIMA: Pope and said the Nagasaki church has become "an example John Paul had a mes- of faith and fidelity for Christians everywhere, an sage for modern expression of hope founded in the Risen Christ."
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science, as he addressed 1500 scientists and students in the city that bore the full brunt of nuclear science in the atomic bomb explosion.
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Pope John Paul ll's personal representative in A ustralia, Archbishop Luigi Barbarito (left) begins today his ten-day visit to WA to the diocese of P erth, Geraldton and Bunbury. Formerly known as an apostolic delegate, the representation was elevated to Pro-Nuncio with the appointment by the Australian Government of an ambassador to the Holy See. Archbishop Barbarito now resides in Canberra. Archbishop Barbarito entered the Vatican diplomatic service in 1953, nine years after his ordination. His first appointment was to the former apostolic delegation in North Sydney for a term of six years. He has since been official Vatican representative in the former French territories in West Africa and in Cape Verde Islands before being appointed to Australia in 1978. Archbishop Barbarito will be liturgically welcomed to the archdiocese by Archbishop Goody at Solemn Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, March 8, to which Religious and laity of the archdiocese are invited.
"Humanity must make a moral about face work together to defend and promote, among all the people of your nation and of the world, the idea of a just world, a world made to man's scales, a world that enables human beings to fulfill their capacities, a world that sustains them in their material, moral and spiritual needs." He praised science and technology as "a wonderful product of a God-given human creativity," but said it can be used either for man's progress or for his degradation." Pople John Paul called for a reordering of world priorities. He asked: "can we remain passive when we are told t hat humanity spends immensely more money on arms than on development, and when we learn that one soldier's equipment costs many times m ore than a child's education?" The world faces "a great moral challenge . . . in harmonisin the values of science with the values of conscience."
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