Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Anyone who thinks Israel is somehow a friend of Christians in the holy land is gravely mistaken. The Israeli state frequently suppresses Christian gatherings. It attacked the only Catholic parish in Gaza. The delusion of the American Evangelical movement that somehow Israel is some sort of ally of Christians is amazingly self-defeating.
Because most American Christians don’t believe Israel is an ally to the Christian faith. They believe Israel must be restored for the rapture to happen but that the war that will follow will consume Israel and the people that live there. They don’t believe Israelites are going to heaven.
My grandpa, who was a truck driver during the Rush Limbaugh years, tried to explain it to me and even as a kid I thought he was bonkers.
Here are some quotes my dad noted about the return of Israel:
Jeremiah 30:17
“But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the Lord, . . .
Amos 9:14
“And I will bring my people Israel back from exile. . . .
Deuteronomy 30:3
“Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.”
Isaiah 59:20
“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,” declares the Lord.”
Revelation 21:5
“He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'”
The point I want to make is that The Lord will restore Israel (not mankind).
Anyone who thinks Israel is a friend of anyone but the Epstein class is gravely mistaken
Even the Epstein class were being blackmailed by Israel. With friends like them…
Most/many evangelicals are anti-Semitic. They support action like this because they think it is completing prophecy and will help bring about Armageddon and Jesus’s return (that’s to really bad, cherry-picked readings of their own scriptures)
Most evangelicals don’t think Catholics are Christian.
Most other people don’t think evangelicals are Christian either.
Evangelicals believe catholics are evil, I think. So the Chistians who are cheering on the bringing about of the apocalypse are cool with all that until they start directly target “real christians.” Maybe…
Yep, I grew up being taught Catholics were fake Christians who worship Mary and their saints instead of god, and in so doing are actually worshipping demons because “Satanists” control the Catholic church.
Huh, I wonder why.
https://www.lpj.org/en/news/statement-by-the-latin-patriarchate-of-jerusalem
We do not know exactly what will happen on the ground, not only for our community, but for the entire population. We can only repeat what we have already said: There can be no future based on captivity, displacement of Palestinians or revenge. We echo what Pope Leo XIV said a few days ago: “All peoples, even the smallest and weakest, must be respected by the powerful in their identity and rights, especially the right to live in their own lands; and no one can force them into exile.” (Address to the group of refugees from Chagos, 23.8.2025).
This is not the right way. There is no reason to justify the deliberate and forcible mass displacement of civilians.
It is time to end this spiral of violence, to put an end to war and to prioritize the common good of the people. There has been enough devastation, in the territories and in people’s lives. There is no reason to justify keeping civilians as prisoners and hostages in dramatic conditions. It is now time for the healing of the long-suffering families on all sides.
These israeli bastards were never friends or allies of christians. The israelis just saw them all as useful idiots with open wallets to be stolen from and used as tools.
IIRC he was considered a viable candidate for pope as well.
But they claimed that christians and muslims enjoyed their religious rights in jizzrael, were they lying?
What about sole Sunday mass?
