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Dalla diocesi di Roma vicinanza e solidarità al cardinale Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarca Latino di Gerusalemme, e a padre Francesco Ielpo, Custode di Terra Santa. @custodiaTS



JERUSALEM—Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, has issued a joint statement condemning the actions of Israeli police, which reportedly prohibited him—and the Friar Custodian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from entering the Church, today, to say Palm Sunday Mass. He states that, “The two of them were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back. As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.” This comes after shrapnel from an intercepted Iranian missile landed on the roof feet away from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which resulted in heightening security measures around the Old City. Cardinal Pizzaballa issued a March 23rd statement complying with Israeli state security measures, limiting the traditional Palm Sunday processions to a “moment of prayer”, due to the security concerns surrounding the ongoing conflict with Iran. Mass, however, was still planned.



Your Excellency, you shared with me through text message to me that my position reflects Catholic teaching, especially that the modern state of Israel is not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. That is the position I expressed, and yet I was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission. Respectfully, it is difficult not to conclude that this commission does not truly care about religious liberty when a Catholic can be removed for faithfully articulating the Church’s teaching. Asking me to deny Catholic teaching in order to satisfy a political ideology is itself a violation of my religious freedom. As Pope Leo XIII warned, “To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamor is raised against truth, is the part of a coward.” Whether I serve on this Commission or not, my voice will only grow louder for those being persecuted for their faith. I believe this appointment was ordained by God, and I will not abandon my Catholic faith to keep a position on a commission that has abandoned its mission. If my religious freedom is not protected, then no one’s is. Please speak up. Please stand up for Catholics. Be brave, Bishop Barron. The world needs brave men.







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Trump and Israel killed this child’s mother today in Mehrshahr, Iran — dropping a bomb on their home in the middle of the night. A terrified child calling for his mom who will never answer again.












