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This would come as a surprise to Moses, King David, Pope St. Pius V, Pope Urban II, etc., all of whom prayed to God for victory in righteous wars against their enemies.

Yeah, Liz's response is garbage.

@Liz_Wheeler It certainly doesn't make me grateful to be a Catholic. It makes me wonder why a man so utterly fallible is the voice of our faith.

When the Pope makes questionable comments, it makes me GRATEFUL to be Catholic. Because the Pope has no authority to unilaterally change Catholic dogma with his pastoral comments. The Pope speaks in two ways, pastorally and rarely, infallibly (called ex Cathedra, which requires a certain set of specific circumstances as the Pope acknowledges, not invents, a doctrinal interpretation). The latter almost never happens. That’s important— His comments today are in his pastoral capacity. He wasn’t speaking ex Cathedra. Catholics aren’t required to agree with his opinions. It’s annoying for sure, I wish the Pope was a wiser leader on matters of politics. But I’m SO grateful to be Catholic because imagine he were the leader of a Prot church—he could change doctrine based on his own faulty opinions at a whim. That’s not the case with Catholicism. Grateful to God for His Church that remains as it always was and always will be despite the turmoil of the world and the sins of man. 🙏🏼

@nypost Look, I am Catholic, and even I think the Catholics that are up in arms about this are being ridiculous. There's a war on. Israel closed all holy sites to keep people safe. It's just silly to pose this as a Jews persecuting Christians situation.

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This breaks my heart 💔

Let me get this straight, Iran is firing ballistic missiles directly at holy sites of Jews, Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem, and Catholics are upset that Israel is trying to keep them safe, and framing it as religious persecution. How dishonest, disgusting and unchristlike.

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At the No Kings protests, they flew flags for a regime that killed 40,000 protesters just this year. You can't make this stuff up.

Barack Obama bears primary responsibility for today’s Middle East crisis. Had he not shipped billions of dollars in cash to Iran, they wouldn’t have had the funds to build their nuclear, missile, and drone programs — nor to arm Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. And by enthusiastically backing the “Arab Spring,” he helped tear apart once-stable nations and turn them into chaos and failed states.”

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9 million attended the “No Kings” protest against President Trump. No protesters were killed. Millions of Iranians protested the Ayatolla and the Iranian Regime. Over 30,000 were killed. They were shot by snipers. They were hanged from cranes. Do you see the difference?

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If you criticize Israeli police officers for canceling mass at a church without a bomb shelter in Jerusalem, but you don’t criticize the Islamic Republic of Iran for firing missiles at Jerusalem, you hate Jews. You do.

Precisely.

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@theisabelb This is being overblown by Catholics/Christians honestly. It doesn't offend me in the slightest because it is absolutely rational to have holy sites closed when a war is on and there is threat of attack/bombs in the area.

We should never wish *for* violence or dangerous circumstances in the world—but if bombs are being dropped on Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday or any other day of the year… there’s no place I’d rather be than on my knees in front of the tabernacle, holding the very Holy Presence of our Savior Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. In particular, the holiest site in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the very ground that Christ was crucified, where He died, and where He was buried, then was Resurrected to bring death to death. Pray for peace in the Middle East and around the world, but also pray for courage among the faithful, that we will answer the call to follow Him even when it’s inconvenient or scary.

My heart is absolutely broken over the news from Jerusalem today that the Israeli government has denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Cardinal Pizzaballa and 4 other priests to celebrate a private mass on behalf of the faithful denied the right to gather on Palm Sunday, and yours should be too. This is an unprecedented move that has ramifications and impact worldwide, and matters deeply in our continued fight for religious freedom around the world.

During his Palm Sunday message yesterday, Pope Leo XIV said: "(Christ) does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them." As a blanket statement, this is EXPLICITLY heterodoxical. We know from the Scriptures that Moses prayed and received victory in war, as did several Israelite kings such as David. In fact, whole chunks of the Psalms -- when David prayed for wartime victory over his enemies -- would now be in error according to Pope Leo XIV. Then there's the fact when Christ returns it will be with a robe dipped in blood and a sword in His mouth. But I'm sure that's merely decorative. Ironically, the best thing this pope accomplished with his hippy dippy Palm Sunday message is confirm my belief in Sola Scriptura. But let's take it further and look at this from an explicitly Catholic perspective. This would also be a repudiation of the history of the Catholic Church this pope presides over, which several times righteously went to war to preserve itself and the West. Which we should all still be thankful for today. For example, Pope Pius V attributed his legendary victory over the Ottomans (Muslims) in 1517 (the very year Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation) to the Rosary prayers of the faithful HE INSTRUCTED to pray. And that victory was considered such a supernatural miracle of prayer, that Pope Pius V was later sainted. I'm sure the Ottomans were repelled without any bloodshed. This from this pope is not a Christian sentiment in any way, shape, or form but a ridiculously hippy and worldly one. The kind of stuff fools who pray over blocks of ice and visit climate conferences think and say. And to ironically drop it in a message on the day Christ is welcomed to Jerusalem as the "son of David" -- who prayed many of those answered wartime prayers to God -- is especially revolting. Perhaps this pope should research if God answers the prayers of heretics?

I just called the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, to express my great sorrow over this morning's unfortunate incident in the Old City of Jerusalem, in which Cardinal Pizzaballa and the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, were prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers amid the ongoing security situation. I clarified that the incident stemmed from security concerns due to the continuous threat of missile attacks from the Iranian terror regime against the civilian population in Israel, following previous incidents in which Iranian missiles fell in the area of the Old City of Jerusalem in recent days. I reaffirmed the State of Israel's unwavering commitment to freedom of religion for all faiths and to upholding the status quo at the holy sites of Jerusalem.