Italian Becomes Bishop in … Tokyo

Francis has named Father Andrea Lembo, 49, as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Tokyo.

He came to Japan from Italy in 2009 as a PIME missionary. Tokyo’s last auxiliary bishop retired in 2018. It is telling that no local could be found to replace him.

Lembo told AsiaNews.it that in Japan "you experience the smallness of being a Christian: if at the crossroads that I cross [dressed as a layman], I say that I am a priest, no one would understand what my job is."

The Japanese bishops have fully fallen into the Vatican II trap (syncretism, inter-religion, liturgical abuses) and the results are accordingly.

It is also telling that in August 1945, the USA chose Nagasaki, then the centre of Japanese Catholicism, to drop its atomic bomb, murdering 10,000 Catholics and destroying Nagasaki Cathedral, then the largest church in Asia.

Picture: Andrea Lembo © AsiaNews.it, #newsGxzooxbtkt

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Hound of Heaven

Sep 16, 2023

It is impossible to ignore the likelihood that the bomb at Nagasaki was intended to include the local Catholic faith in its 'collateral damage'. Much like, it appears, that some of the architects of Vatican II intended the collateral damage which has been sustained in Japan and throughout the Catholic nations of the world.

SonoftheChurch

Sep 17, 2023

“…the bomb at Nagasaki was intended to include the local Catholic faith in its 'collateral damage'.”
To what purpose? What would have been, in your estimation @Hound of Heaven , the goal or the achievable objective by the United States and their Allies to have done, or to have even conceived of, such a thing?More

“…the bomb at Nagasaki was intended to include the local Catholic faith in its 'collateral damage'.”

To what purpose? What would have been, in your estimation @Hound of Heaven , the goal or the achievable objective by the United States and their Allies to have done, or to have even conceived of, such a thing?

Hound of Heaven

Sep 17, 2023

Point taken, and it is a very good one, although, as many of the parties involved have died and documents have been released, it becomes apparent that all of the 'reasons' we were given for certain acts are not necessarily the ones originally supposed. The morality of using the atomic bomb, twice, will continue to be debated, and correctly so. Let's just agree that there are compelling arguments to be made that the second bomb may have been 'overkill' to achieve the surrender of Japan.
I would ascertain that it appears to have been the United States 'objectives' not necessarily 'their Allies' in the use of the atomic bombs, or, more specifically, the objectives of certain parties in power at various levels with respect to the geo-political landscape. If it seemed that I was suggesting that the Catholic faith in Nagasaki was a primary goal, I regret having appeared to do so.
I am suggesting that it is not outside the realm of possibility that it was one of the convenient side benefits, and, as such, it may have had to do more with the affiliations of those who made the decision to bomb rather than just 'winning' the war. Given the times we currently live in, and the number of public leaders who appear to be committed to establishing a World Order, it is possible to argue that the reasons you are told things are being done are not necessarily the actual reasons they are being done.

Jeffrey Ade

Sep 18, 2023

@SonoftheChurch Are you even awake? Look to the "Secret of Nagasaki!" And the "Secrets of the Atomic bomb!" Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Jeffrey Ade

Sep 18, 2023

@Hound of Heaven Don't back down from the truth! The "Allies" had every intention to destroy the "Vatican" of the orient! We have this very well posted on Gloria.tv. It was not a convenient side affect! It was the purposeful intention to destroy the Catholic Church in Asia. These "Allies" revel in the blood of Christians! God have mercy on us all! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Sep 16, 2023

I'm Japanese American, and tell by first had trips to Japan multiple times with family, no one really goes to Church in Japan.....way down since Vatican II. no vocations, liturgical abuses etc. Declining Catholic Church there. But to be fair, no one really goes to Buddhist or Shinto temples either, except for weddings or funerals or festivals. There's nothing similar to "going to Church" in Buddhism or Shinto. People go to temple to pray when they need. or have faith. But there isn't much of that in Japan. Very secular, commercial, consumer oriented.
There is still a good amount of Buddhist monks in Japan, and some temples have a large compliment of monks, but not like it was 60+ years ago. As for Buddhist nuns in Japan, they are aging out rapidly except in a handful of temples. Just like the Geisha. Women are interested in other things. Except for traditional Orders of Catholic nuns in Japan, and there are a half dozen or so founded in Japan which are traditional leaning, there's few vocations there too.