[Mrs. Don-o]

Pope: the Holy Land belongs to the Jews.

And the Temple does, too!

It's not like Jesus drove the money-changers out of the Wal-Mart.

[2banana]

When are the Egyptians going to pay reparations and take micro aggression classes to ride them of their brown guilt?

[Chauncey Gardiner]

With this Pope, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[Revel]

The pope actually said something right. Wow- I am amazed.

[soycd]

Yet none has a Tux on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgR5ZziAKPI

[MichaelCorleone]

Bravo Pope Francis!

In my Church we’ve already began having Mass on Saturday mornings and one Latin Mass per week is in the works.

Conclusion: the Church is returning to the salt and light she was meant to bestow upon the world.

The Pontiff might want to add that going against the will of the Almighty is not too smart.

[cloudmountain]

The "Holy Land" in Israel has a ton of Israeli Muslim Arabs and Israeli Catholic Arabs. There simply are not ENOUGH Israeli (or from wherever) Jews to do all the work that has to be done. THEY won't so some work, like clean toilets, so they HAVE to hire the Israeli Muslim Arabs. They are poor enough to need the work.

The Israeli Catholic Arabs, who call themselves Palestinian Catholic Arabs, are the middle men. My old friend, a Baptist-turned-Episcopalian, and I went on a Steve Ray (former Evangelical Baptist minister-convert to Catholicism) tour of the Holy Land. It was FABULOUS. I placed my already-blessed rosary on the Tomb of Jesus! How blessed am I?!
We were only allowed to enter His tomb in twos and for only a few minutes.

One can SEE the cooperation of all three groups of Israelis. HAD to be done and it works. Folks aren't thrilled about it or with it but they do it to co-exist in a land they ALL love.

It works because their are Israeli soldiers EVERYWHERE. There are Israeli checkpoints every half hour of driving. Uzis keep the peace. Imagine Uzi-peace in the homeland of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

[ebb tide]

What "temple" are you speaking of?

This one, perhaps?

[51] And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent. Matthew, Chapter 17

[af_vet_1981]

“The people of Israel, who from Egypt, where they were enslaved, walked through the desert for 40 years until they reached the land promised by God,” Pope Francis said, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Good witness

[ebb tide]

"We cannot give approval to this movement. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem—but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church I cannot tell you anything different. The Jews have not recognized our Lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people."Pope Saint Pius X.

[jimmyray]

The Holy Land belongs to Christ!

Genesis 12:7 "And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:"

Galatians 3:16 "The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ."

And for your further consideration:
Galatians 3:28-29 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

... and that’s not all He promised Israel!