The EWTN News portal reports that the “bishop” of Hiroshima, Alexis Shirahama, presided over a 75-hour “prayer relay” marking the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing, linking Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rome, and New York under the auspices of the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Focolare Movement, explicitly tethering the event to the “peace call” of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. This spectacle of humanitarian sentimentality, masquerading as Catholic worship, constitutes a supreme manifestation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: the total substitution of the social reign of Christ the King for a Masonic “universal brotherhood” devoid of the Cross, the Conversion of nations, and the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary.
The Antipope’s Encyclical as Magna Carta of the Neo-Church
The cited article reveals the theological engine driving this performance: the “first encyclical” of the manifest usurper Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas. That a “bishop” of the neo-church and the president of Sant’Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo, issue a joint message invoking this document as the normative framework for commemorating Hiroshima demonstrates that the conciliar sect no longer even feigns fidelity to the immutable Magisterium. The very title Magnifica Humanitas — “Magnificent Humanity” — betrays the anthropocentric inversion at the heart of the post-conciliar religion: the cult of man has replaced the cult of God.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered against precisely this plague: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations”. The Hiroshima vigil, orchestrated under the banner of an antipope’s “humanistic” encyclical, is the liturgical enactment of that denial. The “peace” invoked is explicitly described as “a disarming, humble, and persevering peace” — a phrase lifted from the usurper’s loggia appearance — which is nothing other than the pax humana of the City of Man, the peace of the world which Christ explicitly rejected: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (Jn 14:27).
Sant’Egidio and Focolare: The Paramafia of False Ecumenism
The involvement of the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Focolare Movement is not incidental; it is essential to the operation. These are the shock troops of the conciliar revolution, the paramasonic structures designed to dissolve the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica into a generic “spirituality of dialogue.” Sant’Egidio, the self-styled “UN of the Vatican,” specializes in the relativization of dogma through high-profile interreligious spectacles — the very “ecumenism project” condemned in the theological analysis of False Fatima as opening “the way to religious relativism” and serving “to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The Focolare Movement, with its spirituality of unity severed from the unity of faith, functions as the lay arm of this dissolution.
That these movements “take part” in a “prayer relay” linking a Catholic cathedral, a New York chapel, and the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere — livestreamed globally, reading “intentions sent in from around the world” — is the liturgy of the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15). It is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9) assembling in the guise of piety. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). This “prayer relay” is precisely that: the vox populi of the neo-church replacing the vox Dei of the Magisterium.
Hiroshima Without Sin, Conversion, or Christ the King
The article notes the vigil runs from the hour of the Hiroshima blast (8:15 AM, August 6) to the exact minute of the Nagasaki blast (11:02 AM, August 9). It mentions the “Ten Days for Peace” initiated by the antipope John Paul II in 1981. Nowhere — nowhere — does the report mention: the Social Kingship of Christ; the necessity of the conversion of Japan to the Catholic Faith; the reality of Original Sin and actual sin as the cause of war; the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell); the propitiatory nature of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the repose of souls in Purgatory; the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Religion (Syllabus, Prop. 77-79).
The “Mass for the victims of the bomb and all war dead” at the “World Peace Memorial Cathedral” is stripped of its supernatural finality. It is reduced to a civic memorial service. Pius XI taught: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII). The Hiroshima vigil, by contrast, proposes a “peace” that prescinds from that authority. It is the peace of the Civitas Terrena built on the ruins of the Civitas Dei.
The Nuclear Disarmament Heresy: Substituting Politics for Eschatology
The article highlights that “Pope Leo, in a foreword published in July, called for the elimination of nuclear weapons outright,” and cites the antipope Benedict XVI calling reliance on nuclear arms “not only baneful but also completely fallacious.” This obsession with nuclear disarmament as the sine qua non of peace is a theological error of the first order. It confuses the instrument of chastisement with the cause of disorder. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Prop. 41) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55).
The neo-church’s campaign for nuclear abolition functions as a surrogate eschatology. Having abandoned the preaching of Divine Judgment, the necessity of grace, and the Kingship of Christ, the conciliar sect pours its messianic energy into a political program: global disarmament, world governance, “integral human development.” This is the opus operatum of the Antichrist: “And he shall make a covenant with many in one week… and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease” (Dan 9:27). The “Sacrifice” — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary — has ceased in the neo-church’s “World Peace Memorial Cathedral,” replaced by the oblation of “intentions from around the world” to the idol of Humanity.
The Feast of the Transfiguration Profaned
The article casually notes: “The day, Aug. 6, is also the feast of the Transfiguration.” This is not a chronological coincidence; it is a diabolical mockery. On the day the Church celebrates the glorious manifestation of Christ’s Divinity on Tabor — “His face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as snow” (Mt 17:2) — the neo-church stages a “prayer relay” for the victims of a bomb that turned human flesh into ash. The Transfiguration reveals the glory of the Cross; the Hiroshima vigil proclaims the horror of the Cross without its redemptive power.
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to crown the liturgical year with the triumph of the King before the feast of All Saints. The neo-church, by contrast, inserts a “Ten Days for Peace” between the Feast of the Transfiguration and the anniversary of Japan’s surrender (Aug 15, the Feast of the Assumption in the traditional calendar), creating a counter-liturgical cycle centered on human suffering rather than Divine Glory. This is the hermeneutic of rupture made liturgical flesh.
The Invalid “Bishop” and the Vacant See
Alexis Shirahama functions as a “bishop” within the conciliar sect. He was likely consecrated in the novus ordo rite of Paul VI (1968), which is doubtfully valid at best and certainly invalid in its typical form due to defect of form and intention. Even if validly ordained priest before 1968, his acceptance of the novus ordo missae, the heretical teachings of Vatican II, and the manifestly heretical antipopes (John XXIII through Leo XIV) constitutes public defection from the Catholic Faith (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates from Bellarmine, Wernz-Vidal, and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “A manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope”.
Shirahama’s communion with the antipope Leo XIV makes him a member of the neo-church, not a bishop of the Catholic Church. His “Mass” is at best a simulacrum; at worst, idolatry. The “prayer relay” is a conventicle of schismatics and heretics (Canon 1258, 1917 Code). The faithful Catholic cannot participate, cannot “send intentions,” cannot watch the livestream without contracting the contagion of Modernism.
Conclusion: The Only Peace Is the Peace of Christ the King
The Hiroshima vigil is a theological fraud. It offers the world a placebo of “peace” while withholding the only medicine: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Pius XI’s words remain the unanswerable indictment: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano).
The atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chastisements permitted by Divine Justice for the sins of nations — including the sins of Japan, which had persecuted the Church and embraced militarism divorced from God’s Law. The only true “memorial” for the dead is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered by a valid priest in communion with the true Pope (sedevacantist hierarchy) for the repose of their souls and the conversion of the living. The neo-church’s “prayer relay” is a dance around the Golden Calf of Humanity. Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis (Is 48:22). There is no peace, saith the Lord, for the wicked — nor for the architects of the abomination of desolation who call their apostasy “peace.”
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Hiroshima’s bishop links atomic anniversary to Pope Leo’s peace call (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.08.2026