Archbishop Michiaki Peter Nakamura blesses a bronze bell, the ‘Kateri Bell of Hope,’ during a ceremony in which Kojiro Moriuchi (r), whose father was an atomic- bomb victim, and professor James Nolan Jr. of Williams College in the United States, attend at the Nagasaki Immaculate Conception Cathedral, known as the Urakami Cathedral, in Nagasaki, Japan, on July 17, 2025. Professor Nolan, the grandson of a doctor who had participated in the Manhattan Project, spearheaded the effort for the bronze bell, which is almost identical to the one destroyed in 1945.
A symphony of lives were impacted by the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, and the witness of Servant of God Takashi Nagai, whose Catholic faith rose from those ashes.
