Where is Pope Urban II when you need him?
In a passionate speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for the First Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. “Deus vult!” the cry went up from the assembled crowd. “God wills it!” And Christendom responded.That was a different era. Today the West is no longer Christendom but a secular civilization in decline and undergoing an accelerating capitulation to Islamic imperialism. Instead of a Pope Urban II rallying the Church Militant in defense of the faith, we are saddled with a pacifist Pope Leo XIV calling for “interfaith dialogue” and “communion” between Christianity and the Islamic ideology that is, both historically and currently, an existential enemy of Western civilization.
The Church Militant, by the way, refers in Catholic theology to those serving as soldiers (from the Latin milites) of God engaged in spiritual warfare against sin and evil in the world – not only internally against our own broken nature but externally against Satan and his evil agents.
Fresh from declaring that Jesus Christ rejects the prayers of those who wage war, in denial not only of thousands of years of righteous Jewish and Christian warriors appealing to God for victory but also of more than 1600 years of Catholic “just war” theory, Pope Leo is currently on a tour of territories whose Christian populations have been either radically reduced or nearly eradicated by Islamic supremacism. His message is one, frankly, of willful ignorance: that Christians and Muslims can live together in peace, and that anyone who says otherwise is ginning up conflict and hatred for reasons of bigotry and/or politics.
The fact that he keeps using Lebanon as a positive example of Muslims and Christians living together, when the Christian population there has been persecuted and reduced to just 30% of the country, is an issue.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 16, 2026
He seems to always grade Islam on a curve. pic.twitter.com/pyGdb6BG6I“I know that in Europe,” Leo begins in the video clip above,
there are many times fears that are present but oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who, maybe from another country or religion another race. In that sense, I would say that we all need work together.
Leo glossed right over the real reason why “many times fears are present” in Europe: the presence of millions of Muslim migrants, a flood of whom is still ongoing, is forcing a fundamental and unsustainable transformation of those Christian countries into increasingly Islamized colonies in which sharia law, no-go zones, terrorism, streets blocked by masses of praying Muslims, soaring knife crime and a literal rape culture, and open hostility toward Jewish and Christian infidels are now part of the new normal for all indigenous Europeans, who oftentimes are treated by their own globalist elites – like Pope Leo – as the real threat to civil society.
“One of the values of this trip,” Leo added about his tour, “is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.”
Possible? Well yes, but almost anything is within the realm of possibility. Unicorns are possible. Dialogue and friendship are certainly possible, but by definition they are two-way streets. Christians are perfectly willing to live in peace and friendship; this is not in question. The issue is, are Muslims willing to reciprocate?
I understand that as Pope, the Chicago-born Leo is in the business of promoting peace on earth for men of good will. But Christians and Muslims have different understandings of what the word “peace” entails. For Christians, the word is defined as the absence of conflict; for devout Muslims, peace means a world in which all have submitted to Allah and live under sharia. Hence, their view is that the world is divided into Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb – the world of Islam and the world of war. This is not a worldview conducive to tolerance and inclusion. And yet it is always Christians, never Muslims, who are expected to concede, to defer, to change, and to be “welcoming,” even at the cost of our traditions, our values, even our churches themselves, and too often even our lives.
Pope Leo and his ilk seem unable or unwilling to grasp that “interfaith dialogue” between Christians and Muslims is always, in reality, a monologue in which we are expected to listen and accommodate the latter accordingly. Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, argued that interfaith dialogue with the West should be undertaken only to draw infidels over to Islam, bringing concessions with them. --->READ MORE HERE
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