For Pres. Obama’s trip to Hiroshima:

Why shouldn’t it be an apology tour? Critics are yammering about how inappropriate it is for Pres. Obama to go to Hiroshima — the first time for a sitting President — and say he’s sorry. (The White House has said there is no apology on the trip’s agenda.) But why? Why can’t he be sorry …

Seventy years and a day after the bombing of Hiroshima:

This is what the Rev. George Zabelka, the Air Force chaplain who blessed the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said: As a Catholic chaplain I watched as the Boxcar, piloted by a good Irish Catholic pilot, dropped the bomb on Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, the center of Catholicism in Japan. I never preached a single …