The lamestream media have made a big fuss about Pope Francis’ recent intimation to Volodymyr Zelinskyy that he should throw in the towel and begin negotiating peace with Russia. To my thinking, his pronouncement is a day late and a dollar short. Had he said as much to Zelinskyy two years ago in March of 2022, when then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effectively derailing a tentative peace agreement that Ukraine had drafted together with the Russians, that would have been a big deal, and it would have saved tens of thousands of lives uselessly wasted since. But that would have meant standing up to the powers that be. Instead, our fearless pope has waited until the handwriting on the wall is so plain that even a blind man could read it, and is merely stating the obvious to the Ukrainian president. True, he took a bit of heat for it from the usual suspects anyway, but nothing compared to what he might have expected from more timely advice.
But there is a much bigger elephant in the geopolitical living room: Israel’s genocide in Gaza. When tens of thousands of innocent and defenseless Gazans have lost life and limb, when the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip has been brutally assaulted by the IDF resulting in the deaths of two women and the rendering of its sizeable convent completely uninhabitable, this pope wrings his hands, whinges about war and terror,” but then concludes, “well, we must pray for peace.” Prayer is important, of course, but what about the time-honored adages that “God helps him who helps himself,” and “Jesus has no hands but ours?” Did you know, dear reader, that back in the year 390 AD, under the reign of (Christian) Roman Emperor Theodosius I, the Massacre of Thessalonica was conducted by Roman troops in reponse to an uprising that led to the death of a Roman official of that Greek city? Though the extent of the emperor’s direct responsibility for the deaths of some 7,000 civilians is a bit muddled in the historical mist, he was held responsible for it by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, and denied Communion until he performed lengthy public repentance. Prayer is always a good idea, but there are times when religious authorities need to take a clear stand.
This current pope apparently harbors no such intention. In the picture below, we see him glad-handing with Genocide Joe Biden in an earlier photo. Would this pusillanimous pope dare to call out the enabler of the genocide in Gaza by excommunicating him until he repents? Don’t hold your breath! You might think that Genocide Joe’s recent pandering to pro-abortion sentiment in his recent State of the Union address to Congress last week (in essence, a stump speech) should seriously rankle a Catholic pope and stir him to action, but in the case of this pope, you would be wrong. Genocide Joe gets off on massacring the innocent on both sides of the birth canal, and Pope Francis just takes it all in stride. We can only hope that Biden’s American bishop will take the matter more seriously, and follow the example of St. Ambrose; to paraphrase the Democrats’ favorite saying (at least, when it comes to Donald Trump) “no one is above the moral law.” If the Catholic Church no longer regards genocide as an excommunicable sin, what exactly does it think would qualify these days? Is a higher crime or greater injustice even imaginable then what Biden is enabling in Gaza right now?
Pope Francis couldn’t be on better terms with Genocide Joe, as Jesus looks on in the background….zoom in on this painting: which finger do you think he is giving them?
The pusillanimous pope and Genocide Joe
The pusillanimous pope and Genocide Joe
The pusillanimous pope and Genocide Joe
The lamestream media have made a big fuss about Pope Francis’ recent intimation to Volodymyr Zelinskyy that he should throw in the towel and begin negotiating peace with Russia. To my thinking, his pronouncement is a day late and a dollar short. Had he said as much to Zelinskyy two years ago in March of 2022, when then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effectively derailing a tentative peace agreement that Ukraine had drafted together with the Russians, that would have been a big deal, and it would have saved tens of thousands of lives uselessly wasted since. But that would have meant standing up to the powers that be. Instead, our fearless pope has waited until the handwriting on the wall is so plain that even a blind man could read it, and is merely stating the obvious to the Ukrainian president. True, he took a bit of heat for it from the usual suspects anyway, but nothing compared to what he might have expected from more timely advice.
But there is a much bigger elephant in the geopolitical living room: Israel’s genocide in Gaza. When tens of thousands of innocent and defenseless Gazans have lost life and limb, when the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip has been brutally assaulted by the IDF resulting in the deaths of two women and the rendering of its sizeable convent completely uninhabitable, this pope wrings his hands, whinges about war and terror,” but then concludes, “well, we must pray for peace.” Prayer is important, of course, but what about the time-honored adages that “God helps him who helps himself,” and “Jesus has no hands but ours?” Did you know, dear reader, that back in the year 390 AD, under the reign of (Christian) Roman Emperor Theodosius I, the Massacre of Thessalonica was conducted by Roman troops in reponse to an uprising that led to the death of a Roman official of that Greek city? Though the extent of the emperor’s direct responsibility for the deaths of some 7,000 civilians is a bit muddled in the historical mist, he was held responsible for it by Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, and denied Communion until he performed lengthy public repentance. Prayer is always a good idea, but there are times when religious authorities need to take a clear stand.
This current pope apparently harbors no such intention. In the picture below, we see him glad-handing with Genocide Joe Biden in an earlier photo. Would this pusillanimous pope dare to call out the enabler of the genocide in Gaza by excommunicating him until he repents? Don’t hold your breath! You might think that Genocide Joe’s recent pandering to pro-abortion sentiment in his recent State of the Union address to Congress last week (in essence, a stump speech) should seriously rankle a Catholic pope and stir him to action, but in the case of this pope, you would be wrong. Genocide Joe gets off on massacring the innocent on both sides of the birth canal, and Pope Francis just takes it all in stride. We can only hope that Biden’s American bishop will take the matter more seriously, and follow the example of St. Ambrose; to paraphrase the Democrats’ favorite saying (at least, when it comes to Donald Trump) “no one is above the moral law.” If the Catholic Church no longer regards genocide as an excommunicable sin, what exactly does it think would qualify these days? Is a higher crime or greater injustice even imaginable then what Biden is enabling in Gaza right now?
Pope Francis couldn’t be on better terms with Genocide Joe, as Jesus looks on in the background….zoom in on this painting: which finger do you think he is giving them?
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