Posted on 03/31/2026 1:31:09 PM PDT by MarlonRando
“Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” the first American pope, citing a Bible passage, told congregants in St. Peter’s Square, according to The Associated Press.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them,” he added.
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Somebody ask Francis if he ever read the City of God. And does he know what bellum iustum is.
You can stay with us Ha. No condemnation
I have an Iranian colleague, whose family is still there, who went to church for the first time in June when the bombing started.
LOTS of people are praying for both peace and for change.
Agree. It’s one thing to advocate for peace. It’s heretical to say that God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war. God listens to all prayers. Where is it written in The Word that He does not?
I seem to remember something called ‘The Crusades’..
No he did not and it is a lie to say that
God is no longer in the foxhole, having abandoned it for the sake of the principles of DEI, as laid down by radical Democrats.
Hmm... well, kind of have to ignore a huge part of the old testament to believe that one..
Yes I now the new testament created a new covenant, so don’t get your panties in a bunch...
However, while preaching love thy neighbor, and turning the other cheek, there is no passage anywhere in the new testament where he flatly condemns war, or the military.
Christ never tried to take over a nation, or lecture on how politics should operate. He was focused on folks everlasting souls, not ruling nations of this world.
bttt
He needs to have people send him Bibles. Deluge the idiot with a mountain of copies of God’s Holy Word!
Now TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
Exactly right!
What Pope??? When??? Please reply.
2 Kings 19:35 - That very night, the angel of the Lord went out to the camp of the Assyrian army and killed 185,000 men.
I remember the story of Patton ordering prayers that skies would clear during the Battle of the Bulge so the air cover could enter the fray…and the skies cleared.
Zelensky isn't Christian but he and his cohorts certainly love sending white Christian men to their deaths.
I remember the story of Patton ordering prayers that skies would clear during the Battle of the Bulge so the air cover could enter the fray…and the skies cleared.
I remember the story of Patton ordering prayers that skies would clear during the Battle of the Bulge so the air cover could enter the fray…and the skies cleared.
WT ever living F?!
The pope is now dictating whom God listens to?!
And I’m sure this Pope thinks God approves of homosexuality too.
This Pope is an idiot
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