Just curious.
Posted on 11/27/2025 1:55:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
ANKARA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Pope Leo lamented during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts, and warned that a third world war was being "fought piecemeal" with humanity's future at risk.
In his first speech given overseas since his election in May to lead the 1.4 billion-member Church, Leo, the first U.S. pope, said "ambitions and choices that trample on justice and peace" were destabilising the world.
He told political leaders in Turkey that the world was experiencing "a heightened level of conflict on the global level, fuelled by prevailing strategies of economic and military power".
"We must in no way give in to this," he pleaded at an event with President Tayyip Erdogan after they held a private meeting. "The future of humanity is at stake."
Speaking before the pope, Erdogan said that he welcomed the pope's "astute stance" on the Palestinian issue, and hoped the visit would be beneficial for humanity at a time of tension and uncertainty.
In September, Leo met Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican and raised the "tragic situation" in Gaza with him.
The first U.S. pope chose mainly Muslim Turkey as his first overseas destination to mark the 1,700th anniversary of a landmark early Church council there that produced the Nicene Creed, still used by most of the world's Christians today.
Leo, 70, landed in the capital Ankara shortly after midday (0900 GMT) to begin a crowded three-day itinerary...
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Oh boy, another commie.
Yep, the Vatican sue knows how to pick
‘em,
Hey Pope instead of bad mouthing our President, who has been working for peace, much more the Vatican.
In September, Leo met Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican and raised the "tragic situation" in Gaza with him."
How many Catholics in Gaza, Bob. How many churches in Gaza, Bob.
Go back to the Walled City and give it a think...
“How many churches in Gaza, Bob.”
I think there’s one... and the IDF shelled it. Good times.
How about just mind your own Catholic Church , it’s falling apart
if the Pope was truly interested in peace on earth good will toward all men he would join the Trump team of peace makers.
Frakee the fraud filled the Vatican with leftists and picked to Leo to finish the destruction of the church IMHO.
What can you expect? He is from Chicago and believes it seems the Chicago culture.
The big thing endangering humanity is cozying up to muzzies.
They’ll ultimately turn the whole world into a typical muslim hellhole - destitute, run down, not maintained, dirty, ugly, and impoverished.
Pope Marx II speaks
Zeitoun. Walled enclave that took a fragment hit. Token church so the Palislime can claim Catholics can worship in Gaza.
Bullshit.
Where are all the churches in Mecca and Medina?
The fact there there is one 'church' in all of Gaza in the one city where even Palislime tread lightly is direct testament to how little their moongod rulers give any weight to the 'plight' of the Palislimes to begin with!
"They permit churches in the Levant, that is how weak our paid mercenaries are..."
What does MB and MbS and their magic-carpet supplicants care whose blood is at the end of their sword, as long as it not their own!
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached" -- Pope Benedict, quoting Manuel II.
” Walled enclave that took a fragment hit.”
Of course, everyone knows that the IDF can do no wrong. It’s in the Bible, for cryin’ out loud.
"Most beloved brethren: Urged by necessity, I, Urban, by the permission of God chief bishop and prelate over the whole world, have come into these parts as an ambassador with a divine admonition to you, the servants of God. I hoped to find you as faithful and as zealous in the service of God as I had supposed you to be. . .......... Then the pope said that in another part of the world Christianity was suffering from a state of affairs that was worse than the one just mentioned. He continued:
"Although, O sons of God, you have promised more firmly than ever to keep the peace among yourselves and to preserve the rights of the church, there remains still an important work for you to do. Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania [the Greek empire] as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont, which is called the Arm of St. George. They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them in seven battles. They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the empire. If you permit them to continue thus for awhile with impurity, the faithful of God will be much more widely attacked by them. On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it. "All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested. O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ! With what reproaches will the Lord overwhelm us if you do not aid those who, with us, profess the Christian religion! Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights. Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians...... Let those who go not put off the journey, but rent their lands and collect money for their expenses; and as soon as winter is over and spring comes, let hem eagerly set out on the way with God as their guide."
Da Pope
One morning Pope Leo got up and it was such a beautiful morning that he took off his robe, then stood in the window. He looked left & right, slipped off his robe and spanked his monkey.
Later that day he got a call from some Japanese. They said, “We saw what you did this morning and took pictures. But we are willing to sell you the camera with the film in it for ... one million dollars, then you can forget the whole thing.”
He agreed, got into petty cash and bought the camera with the film from them.
Later that day he was meeting with an American businessman who saw it and remarked,
“Hey, that’s a great camera. How much did you pay for it?”
Leo replied, “Can you believe I paid a million bucks for it?”. To which the American businessman replied ‘Wow! They must have seen you coming.”
Photo....
Proof he doesn’t really oppose ICE.
If Gaza is in a “tragic situation”, it means they are being punished by God for their hubris.
I agree.
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