On Palm Sunday, March 29, in St. Peter’s Square, Leo XIV addressed tens of thousands of the Synodal faithful at the beginning of Holy Week. In remarks widely reported, he condemned the ongoing Iran war as “atrocious” and declared that God rejects the prayers of leaders who wage war, describing them as having “hands full of blood.” He further asserted that Jesus cannot be used to justify any wars.
No Catholic can deny that war is a grave evil most of the time, often the result of sin, pride, and the failure of justice, and that peace, penance, and the protection of innocent life should be sought. Prevost’s comments, though, fly in the face of important distinctions the Church has long upheld, and his suggestion that God rejects the prayers of all leaders engaged in war—and that Jesus cannot in any sense be invoked in the context of warfare—is more modernist nonsense so pathetic it is embarrassing. He must be referring to the limp-wristed false Jesus that he and his cronies made in the image of their perverse minds, because it is not the Jesus Christ of the Catholic Faith.
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