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ABC News gleefully reported last weekend that Pope Leo XIV dedicated his Palm Sunday homily to the rejection of the notion that God justifies war. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Leo told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. “He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Presumably included among those whose prayers God rejects is the United States, currently in a conflict with the Iranian regime of Shi’ite fanatics who have been waging war against the U.S. since 1979. As Pope, Leo naturally prays for peace and dialogue, as should we all. But he has fiercely condemned the conflict in Iran as “atrocious” and “a spiral of violence.” “The wars that stain the present moment with blood,” he tweeted over the weekend, “are the fruit of the idolatry of power and money.”
Really? At least where Iran is concerned, the war is the fruit of nearly 50 years of Islamic terrorism directed at the United States, which the evil mullahs denounce almost daily as “the Great Satan.” How much longer were we supposed to tolerate Americans being murdered and maimed? Striving for peace, Leo continued, “is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated.”
The ones who need to hear that message are not the United States military but the mullahs, who hate us with the heat of a thousand suns for theological reasons, not because of some petty dispute over territory or money. Their single-minded obsession is to hasten the eschatological return of the 12th and final imam whose reappearance will signal the end-times eradication of infidels from the earth. They very much view America and Israel as enemies to be defeated, not brothers and sisters.
Read much more...https://www.frontpagemag.com/pope-jesus-rejects-the-prayers-of-those-who-wage-war/
Presumably included among those whose prayers God rejects is the United States, currently in a conflict with the Iranian regime of Shi’ite fanatics who have been waging war against the U.S. since 1979. As Pope, Leo naturally prays for peace and dialogue, as should we all. But he has fiercely condemned the conflict in Iran as “atrocious” and “a spiral of violence.” “The wars that stain the present moment with blood,” he tweeted over the weekend, “are the fruit of the idolatry of power and money.”
Really? At least where Iran is concerned, the war is the fruit of nearly 50 years of Islamic terrorism directed at the United States, which the evil mullahs denounce almost daily as “the Great Satan.” How much longer were we supposed to tolerate Americans being murdered and maimed? Striving for peace, Leo continued, “is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated.”
The ones who need to hear that message are not the United States military but the mullahs, who hate us with the heat of a thousand suns for theological reasons, not because of some petty dispute over territory or money. Their single-minded obsession is to hasten the eschatological return of the 12th and final imam whose reappearance will signal the end-times eradication of infidels from the earth. They very much view America and Israel as enemies to be defeated, not brothers and sisters.
Read much more...https://www.frontpagemag.com/pope-jesus-rejects-the-prayers-of-those-who-wage-war/
