Catholic Peace Group’s Lantern Ceremonies for Hiroshima: A Naturalistic Cult of Man Without the True Peace of Christ
EWTN news portal reports that Pax Christi International, in collaboration with the Hiroshima Coventry Club, is organizing “Lanterns for Peace: from Hiroshima to the World” — a global campaign of lantern floating ceremonies commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The initiative encourages local communities to hold symbolic acts of “remembrance, peace, hope, and nuclear disarmament,” accompanied by a moment of silence or prayer and the reading of survivors’ testimonies. This entire operation is a quintessential example of naturalistic humanitarianism substituting religious ritual, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to a vaguely spiritualized activism, and ignoring the true source of peace: the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ.