With Easter upon us, thank you Pope Leo. And yes, I walk with Jesus.
Excerpt:
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, has asked the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, has a starkly different take on what should be done in Jesus’s name.
In a homily during a Mass on Thursday morning before Easter, the pope said that the Christian mission has often been “distorted by a desire for domination, entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in late February, the pope has consistently called for an end to the violence and a return to dialogue to resolve the conflict. But without naming Mr. Hegseth, he has also pointed out the ways in which Christianity has been marshaled for purposes that the pope says do not align with Catholic teaching.
“We tend to consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy our equals, great when we are feared,” the pope said in a homily during a Holy Thursday rite at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the bishop of Rome. “God has given us an example — not of how to dominate, but of how to liberate; not of how to destroy life, but of how to give it.”
In late March the pope warned against invoking the name of Jesus for battle, saying in a Sunday homily that Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/middleeast/pope-iran-war.html
Replies to: “With Easter upon us, thank you Pope Leo. And yes, I walk with Jesus.”
Praying for our bombs and weapons to help kill Russians was acceptable, though.
Just ask DFH.
Dropping atomic bombs on civilians too, right Pussy Hat?
Yes and it’s Ok to exterminate Muslim savages, too. Happy Easter
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The Left: When we do it, it's okay.
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Kindly provide a link when a Democrat President linked US military power to Jesus Christ.
Try to keep up.
You mean like when FDR called for prayers and a "united crusade," that's "crusade," to defeat the
Japs? Or when he said, "With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy?"
I'm dead serious, when is the last time you went to Mass? If you're Catholic, then I'm Joe Isuzu. You are so full of crap.
I’m all for blessing every tomahawk and soaking every warhead in pork fat.
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And yet you vote to keep allowing in more Muslims. Weird, huh?
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Only the ones willing to assimilate. The rest are crispy critters
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That's not how you vote, though.
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It's our religious fanatics vs. their religious fanatics
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Yes, Trump is very religious. [rolleyes]
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Agreed. He’s a poser
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He's at least as genuinely religious as Tyrone. I shouldn't judge. Perhaps both are trying.
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Yeah, Trump’s definitely trying…something
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If you’re willing to take a short break from Pontificating and reengage on our most discussed issue
that involves religion, I’ll be happy to post a paper based on arguably the the foremost American theologian of the twentieth century to serve as a basis of discussion…been waiting awhile to do this…you in?
No thank you.
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NP …I’ll be posting it soon anyway…thanks for the nudge…
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Jesus' crucifixion and Easter have always been political holidays for you, it seems.
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Nope. I simply agree with our Pope re Jesus' lack of "warrior ethos."
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