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Global News Interest => New Board => Topic started by: Rebbetzin on April 14, 2026, 05:39:43 PM
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Hi everyone,
I grew up in an Irish/Australian Catholic household knowing nothing of my Jewish heritage on my mother’s side for many years. Antisemitism was part and parcel of the mixture of my family’s likes and dislikes. My father worked with many famous singers, musicians and entertainers, both black and white (from the USA, too) and Jewish. I never heard my father speak ill of anyone. My mother was a different story in her understanding from her Presbyterian parents that Jews were not the inheritors of the Kingdom, but totally rejected by God. I didn’t seem to absorb any of that, Father had me looked after here and there by an older very loving couple, Baptists, but with Jewish heritage. They balanced a lot of things out for me. I attended Catholic school, run by nuns and I have good and bad memories of that time, probably like everyone else. It was what it was. I left it behind when it no longer was relevant to me at the ripe age of fifteen. I know the Catholic Church, I know it’s spirit, it’s not Peter’s throne by any means, and it’s apostate to the ekklesia that Yeshua established through not just Peter (Kefer), but James (Yakov) predominantly to the Jewish faction and Paul (Rav Shaul) to raise up the gentile church. The entire story of what’s to take place with the redemption of the children of Israel was discarded as not relevant to them any longer and that all promises were transferred to the Church. The Catholic Church, the true church, the only one ALLOWED to exist for centuries, under pain of death with a side of good old torture and suffering preceding the gruesome execution.
But the truth of YeHoVaH’s promises are being restored. Baruch HaShem!! 😊
Unfortunately, once again, I have to say, the Catholic leader of that particular faith speaks out about matters obviously beyond his personal comprehension and where he should just keep his odious comments to himself. He’s often criticizing Israel for defending itself against the real ideology of “genocide” coming from Iran, Hamas, Gaza, Turkey and anyone else who deems it their duty to get on board the Israel bashing train. Toot-toot your whistle, bellow all you like you poisonous blowhards, that train has no destination, the bridge is out.
“Pope Leo Calls War on Iran a “Delusion” While Missiles Fall on Israel
VALERIE LOCKE
“ISRAEL AT WAR
“APRIL 12, 2026
https://israel365news.com/417391/pope-leo-calls-war-on-iran-a-delusion-while-missiles-fall-on-israel/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel365%20Marks%20Holocaust%20Remembrance%20Day%20With%20International%20Forum%3A%20%22This%20Is%20Our%20Bonhoeffer%20Moment%22%20and%20Today%20s%20Top%20Stories&utm_campaign=I3N%20-%20AM%20-%20April%2012%2C%202026&vgo_ee=I79cp987PRqQnFy8RRgCcnQSgaaXKKZppOPdNMiz4ElDFu%2BC%3AWxJ8CR%2B669tzrDSJajcxcRO1JyI8wtZG
“Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, stood at the tomb of St. Peter on Saturday evening and delivered his sharpest condemnation yet of the US-Israel campaign against Iran. Pope Leo XIV presided over an evening prayer vigil at St. Peter’s Basilica on the same day the United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan, as a fragile ceasefire held. Without naming President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, or the United States by name, Leo fired a broadside squarely at Washington. “Enough of the idolatry of self and money,” he declared. “Enough of the display of power. Enough of war. True strength is shown in serving life.”
“Leo, a Chicago-born pontiff who was initially reluctant to publicly condemn the violence, stepped up his criticism starting on Palm Sunday and said this week that Trump’s threat against Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable.” On Saturday, he went further, warning that the “holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death” — an apparent shot at US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. US officials, and especially Hegseth, have invoked their Christian faith to cast the US as a Christian nation trying to vanquish its foes.
“Leo’s homily was architecturally careful. He did not mention the United States or President Donald Trump in his prayer, which was planned before the talks were announced — but his tone and message appeared directed at Trump and US officials. Seated on a white throne in his red cape and liturgical stole, rosary in hand, he declared: “In prayer, our limited human possibilities are joined to the infinite possibilities of God. Thoughts, words and deeds then break the demonic cycle of evil and are placed at the service of the Kingdom of God.”
“The vigil was no small affair. Joined by parishes on every continent, the event drew thousands to St. Peter’s Basilica for an evening of rosary, meditation on the Church Fathers, and candlelight carried from the Lamp of Peace in Assisi. Seated in the basilica pews was the Archbishop of Tehran, Belgian Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu. The US was represented in the diplomatic corps by its deputy chief of mission, Laura Hochla.
“The backdrop to Leo’s words is a rapidly moving geopolitical situation. Trump had written on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will… God Bless the Great People of Iran!” Hours later, he announced a two-week ceasefire subject to Iran agreeing to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz. As the Islamabad talks began Saturday, Trump told reporters outside the White House: “We win regardless of what happens. Maybe they make a deal, maybe they don’t.”
“Pope Leo has called for an end to the Iran war repeatedly since early March — from his Lenten appeals for a ceasefire, to his Easter address telling those with weapons to lay them down, to his direct appeal to Trump, to his condemnation of the “unacceptable” threat to annihilate a civilization. But Saturday’s vigil extended that pattern into organized global liturgical action, with dioceses worldwide holding simultaneous prayer services.
“What the Vatican has consistently missed — or chosen to ignore — is that the campaign began because Iran spent years building a nuclear weapons program while its proxies, including Hezbollah, rained rockets onto Israeli cities and communities in the north. Israel and the US launched their campaign against Iran on February 28 in a bid to destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile capacities. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes across the region, and Hezbollah launched rocket barrages at Israel, which then began airstrikes in Lebanon as well as a ground operation.
“Pope Leo XIV may be the first American to sit on the throne of St. Peter. But on this issue, he is speaking the ancient language of nations that have always told the Jewish people that their self-defense goes too far.””
Peter would be horrified to see what has become of the ekklesia and he would say some very, very bad things about those who occupy a particular throne.
Love and Shalom,
Rebbetzin Glenys xo