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The Pope Has a Message for the ‘Secretary of War’
Looking for a higher power.
Source: Dan Scavino via X
The message was as clear as modern popes get, especially in their Palm Sunday mass. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God,” Leo XIV told the faithful in St. Peter’s Square: “Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”
You’d have to be willfully obtuse to miss the American-born pontiff’s reference. He was criticizing the US-Israeli attack on Iran and distancing the church from attitudes expressed by the administration of Donald Trump, and specifically Pete Hegseth, the secretary of “war.”