WelCom September 2023
Catholics marked the 78th anniversary of the United States’ 1945 atomic bombings in Japan with calls for nuclear disarmament, prayers for peace and a protest at the White House. The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House gathered about three dozen protesters for a vigil outside the White House on 9 August to mark the occasion with prayer, and to call on the US, the only nation that has used such weapons in war, to lead the way to a world where they are never again used. The group held a similar demonstration outside the Pentagon on 6 August.