Pope:‘There is No Such Thing as Holy War’
Just seven months ago Pope Leo XIV declared in a Palm Sunday homily that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” I wrote then that this was not only demonstrably and biblically false, but the wrong message to be sending in a climate of intensifying persecution of Christians and a war being waged against Christendom by the unholy Red-Green alliance. Apparently Leo ignored me, because earlier this week, in a video message to an interfaith gathering of religious leaders, the American Pope stated, “There is no such thing as a holy war,” adding, “Only peace is holy.”
The International Meeting for Peace was the 40th anniversary of a landmark interfaith peace conference in the Italian hilltop town of Assisi. Leo, unable to attend because he is recovering from lung cancer surgery, said in his video to the assembled delegates that when Pope St. John Paul II convened the first World Day of Prayer for Peace there in October 1986, he called for believers of all world religions to “continue to live the spirit of Assisi,” home of the renowned St. Francis.
“Peace must once again become the common ideal of all peoples, the guiding star for all our choices, the standard that exposes injustice, and the shared horizon for all,” insisted the Pontiff. Peace is great, certainly, but the reality is, si vis pacem, para bellum – “If you want peace, prepare for war.” Leo, however, condemned nations that ascribe to that ancient Latin adage, for “betraying the memory of the 20th century and the senseless slaughter of millions of human lives.” Instead, “We must rebuild peace everywhere, not prepare for more wars. War can never be waged in the name of God. For us believers, to fight in the name of religion means attacking religion itself.”
Well that depends on the religion, doesn’t it? And this is the problem with taking a multicultural approach to religions – treating all faiths as if they seek essentially the same things, especially peaceful coexistence and mutual respect. This is, at best, dangerous naiveté and historical ignorance, and at worst, suicidal blindness for Christians and Jews. And it’s unacceptable, even unconscionable, coming from the head of the Catholic Church.
Leo then affirmed that “there is no such thing as a holy war,” that “only peace is holy,” and that only “a climate of dialogue amongst the faithful and within society” will help to “gradually [lead] humanity away from the cycle of violence.”
The phrase “cycle of violence” implies that both sides in the clash of civilizations are equally guilty of warmongering, intolerance, and bloodshed. Again, this is demonstrably false. The ones who need to take Leo’s message to heart are not the nations of the West but the fanatical martyrs of an imperialist ideology.
Not all people of faith are rational actors of good will who seek peace and harmony and are amenable to compromise and dialogue. Some men quite simply want to kill non-believers who refuse to convert, because their supremacist faith and their warlord prophet demand it. As Christians, we are called to pray for our enemies’ hearts to turn and to come to the true God. But we are not obliged to let them massacre us. --->READ MORE HERE
This will come as news to Christian warriors throughout history.
ABC News gleefully reported last weekend that Pope Leo XIV dedicated his Palm Sunday homily to the rejection of the notion that God justifies war. “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Leo told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. “He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Presumably included among those whose prayers God rejects is the United States, currently in a conflict with the Iranian regime of Shi’ite fanatics who have been waging war against the U.S. since 1979. As Pope, Leo naturally prays for peace and dialogue, as should we all. But he has fiercely condemned the conflict in Iran as “atrocious” and “a spiral of violence.” “The wars that stain the present moment with blood,” he tweeted over the weekend, “are the fruit of the idolatry of power and money.”
Really? At least where Iran is concerned, the war is the fruit of nearly 50 years of Islamic terrorism directed at the United States, which the evil mullahs denounce almost daily as “the Great Satan.” How much longer were we supposed to tolerate Americans being murdered and maimed? Striving for peace, Leo continued, “is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated.”
The ones who need to hear that message are not the United States military but the mullahs, who hate us with the heat of a thousand suns for theological reasons, not because of some petty dispute over territory or money. Their single-minded obsession is to hasten the eschatological return of the 12th and final imam whose reappearance will signal the end-times eradication of infidels from the earth. They very much view America and Israel as enemies to be defeated, not brothers and sisters.
In the real world, not all people are rational actors who seek peace and harmony, and who are amenable to compromise and dialogue. Some men just want to watch the world burn, as Batman’s butler Alfred tells him in The Dark Knight. Sometimes people just want to kill you. As Christians, we are called to pray for our enemies’ hearts to turn and to come to God; when they insult us for our faith, we are called to turn the other cheek – but our faith was never meant to be a suicide pact.
After citing Pope Leo’s condemnation of those who life up prayers for God’s support in wartime, ABC News went on to smear “U.S. officials, especially Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, for invoking their Christian faith to cast the war as a Christian nation trying to vanquish its foes with military might.” Hegseth’s open Christian belief infuriates the Godless who insist on an impenetrable wall between Christianity and government, which was never the intent of our Founding Fathers, by the way (these same hypocrites are fine with Muslims like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani openly injecting their faith into government). He strikes fear and loathing in the fifth columnists of the Left-wing media like ABC News and other Left-wing propaganda outlets, who have coordinated to spread the fear-mongering narrative that his Christian worldview is “terrifying” veterans and current members of our own military.
The only time the secular Left cites Christianity favorably is when they believe they can weaponize it against Christians themselves (“Make your opponents live up to their own standards,” as radical strategist Saul Alinsky urged in his Rules for Radicals, a book literally dedicated to Lucifer). The Left loves the idea of a pacifist Christianity whose adherents won’t defend themselves against the unholy alliance of the Left and Islam. They hate a “muscular Christianity” that insures peace by preparing for war, that is capable of wielding a sword against the violent unrighteous. --->READ MORE HERE
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