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In an address to one million young Catholics, gathered in Rome for the Mass of Young People for the Jubilee Year, Pope Leo spoke of the need to end the suffering of the “young people of Gaza,” but said nothing about the Israeli hostages being tortured and starved to death in tunnels under the Strip. More on what he said, and what he failed to say, can be found here: “Pope criticised for failure to mention hostages in statement on Gaza,” Jewish News, August 3, 2025:
The Pope has been criticised for statements in which he described being “with the young people of Gaza” without any mention of the Israeli hostages who are still in the clutches of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Leo XIV, who took office in May, was presiding over a Mass for the Jubilee of Young People at Rome’s Tor Vergata, with a million people said to be in attendance. In his closing remarks, he talked about how “we are closer than ever to young people who suffer the most serious evils which are caused by other human beings. We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war.
“My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship, where conflicts are not resolved with weapons but with dialogue.”
Does Pope Leo know anything about the texts and teachings of Islam? He speaks about a “world of fraternity and friendship,” apparently unaware that in the Qur’an, Muslims are instructed “not to take Jews and Christians as friends, for they are friends only with each other.” He does not appear to know that for believing and knowledgable Muslims, the “fraternity” he calls for is impossible, for Muslims know from the Qur’an that they are the “best of peoples,” while non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.” They know further, from the very words of Muhammad, that “Islam must dominate and is not to be dominated.” But Pope Leo does not know any of this. He believes that whatever strife there is in the world is the product of misunderstanding, and that greater comprehension between people will inexorably lead to peace. He wants us to ignore 1,400 years of Muslim aggression against many non-Muslim peoples and their lands, fueled by the the contents of the Qur’an and hadith.
The Pope’s words were subsequently also posted on social media, where they were met with disappointment and condemnation for the lack of any mention of the hostages taken on 7 October, which began the current war in Gaza.
Why did the Pope pass over in silence the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza?
In the last few days, both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have released videos of emaciated hostages – Evyatar David and Rom Braslavsky. In the section of the PIJ video released to the public, Braslavsky speaks about how he is without food or water, and says: “I am on the verge of death”. In the Hamas video of David, he is forced to dig what he says is his own grave.
Given those latest horrifying images of what the hostages endure, one might have thought there would have been a sympathetic mention of their plight by Pope Leo, but he said nothing about them. This failure has caused consternation and alarm among Jewish groups. In the first month of his papacy, on May 28, he did call for peace in Gaza and for the release of the hostages. But since then, he has stopped mentioning the need for the Israeli hostages to be released. Has he been seeing the same images we are all shown on television, of gaunt and dead children in Gaza, photographs which include children emaciated not as the result of hunger, but from the effects of congenital illnesses? He has yet to denounce Hamas, or even to mention the terror group by name, much less to note that Hamas tries always to maximize civilian casualties in Gaza, while the IDF strives instead to minimize civilian casualties, by conducting a tremendous campaign to warn civilians away from places about to be targeted, by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls. As West Point Professor John Spencer, an expert in urban warfare who has been exhaustively studying the war in Gaza, concludes, “Israel has done more and implemented more measures to prevent civilian harm than any military in the history of urban warfare.”
The Pope could repair his relations with world Jewry by calling forcefully for the release of Israeli hostages, stressing the torments they have undergone in captivity, and the ever-increasing length of time they have been held, now surpassing 670 days. He ought to take note, as he has not yet, of Hamas’ charter, that calls for the total destruction of the Jewish state of Israel. He could deplore publicly the Palestinian Authority’s “Pay-For-Slay Program,” which rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism. He could do these things, and more, to relieve the anxiety of Jews at the papacy’s seeming indifference to Jewish suffering. But will he?
Francis 2.0. God help us and the Church.
Quite possibly, except Leo is much more intelligent than Francis, which makes his strange oversight more worrying.
Even a mere acknowledgement of Hamas’s atrocities and the continuing plight of the hostages would do far more for Catholic-Jewish relations than any number of pointless prissy-pious, glad-handing, cross-hiding “ecumenical” photo ops with pope and rabbis.
How is he more intelligent than Francis? He stills performs magic at the altar of a false Christ. A Christ created by Catholic men and not the Christ of creation. He performs this act every sunday by grabbing Christ from heaven and placing Him in a worthless peace of unleavened bread. All the while, all unsuspecting congregates kneel at the same altar. They both lead people to a false Christ. One that doesn’t exist.
Amen. We’ll said
The new Pope same as the old Pope, I can smell the Sulphur of Satan.
I’ve been a “Fallen Catholic” for decades, not out of shame for my sins and refusal to Confess them and seek Absolution, but as I’ve seen The Church abandon Her Teachings and lurch further and further Left into P.C. insanity.
I had hoped, and expected, to return to Communion when antipope Francis I (a South American Marxist, and not a Christian or even a Catholic) was replaced with a successor.
I had hopes that Leo (incredibly the first American Pope) would turn things around, and return The Church, and the Dignity of the Chair of St. Peter, to their Eternal Truths, and and restore the dignity and influence of the Papacy.
But I was wrong.
I have no more inclination to return to Communion with today’s corrupt Church than I did years ago.
And that will be my defense when I face the Ultimate Judge on Judgment Day.
Let Him decide.
Pope Pecker-wood…
Prevost is as insufferable as bergoglio. He is unacceptable and it seems everyday either through his appointments or speech he just confirms it. His utility to the powers that be is the belief he will be able to open the spigot of american contributions and erode support in catholic communion for trump. It is despicable. Guaranteed any number of canons ruling the conduct of conclave were violated potentially making it null. Particularly disturbing in that a number of very solid candidates were available.
2025 being about suffering Gazans is analogous to 1945 being about suffering Germans.
Not with you assling. You will always be a pussy boy whiner.
I hereby christen thee “Queen of the whiners.”
Who the Hell cares what you think, Mr Nobody?
And what would happen if you were violently captured, zip tied and dragged underground, caged, raped and starved? It is obvious that you are grossly incapable of extending empathy to others and you rabidly avoid facing truth you find incompatible with your hatred.
Catholicism has become a dark advocate of hiding truth rather than revealing it and this pope is no different. As the history of priests sexually abusing children continue being only superficially addressed with financial compensations quietly paid to those violated while these predatory priests are simply moved to another parish with yet more vulnerable children and parents unaware of the pederasts among them.
It seems, this pope should clean up his own house before casting stones at others. Once again the believing Catholic laity are being duped. Pedophilia, is a death worthy sin yet both this pope and leaders of Islam share in this willful violation of innocence and through their darkness violate with impunity. This pope stands on the bloodied ground of innocents murdered in a psychopathic frenzy by savages and the people in Gaza supporting them, acting as though the hem of his garment is not sullied and the people he is supporting are not the vilest of criminals.
Things not going your way? Those damn Jews. They keep winning don’t they.
Why do you and your dumbass girlfriend always pose questions to no one in your comments, that no one ever answers?
Sucks to be you.
I said nothing about innocent people. So you lied….again. But that’s sort of your stock in trade…….your S.O.P.
Innocent people, just like Hamas was innocent on Oct 7 2023 when they parasailed into Israel unprovoked, and murdered 2200 Israelis and took Israeli and American hostages. Hamas are such high class people huh.
I love it when you fall for UN/Hamas propaganda about starving children. All you have are vile, simpleminded lies and your pathetic gay jokes. I just wish you were a little more on the ball and you didn’t have to rely on your low rent “bathhouse humor”. Maybe I could actually carry on a halfway intelligent conversation. But I guess that is too much to expect from a low rent servile jew-hatin’ Muslim assling.
And how’s that Huckabee project coming along. His assistant probably took one look at you and laughed long and loud.
I have news for you, shmuck face. There are no innocent hamasimean monkeys. Or Muslims for that matter.
BTW, Did you wipe today and clean that shyte-stained left hand of yours?
Sebastian out,,,,,,,of his pee brain mind.
so you are admitting that hamas savages kill innocent people – shouldn’t you be busy campaigning for your boy crush, mamdani??
Are the “innocent, non-combatant Gazan civilians” who were holding the hostages as prisoners in their own homes “innocent civilians,” Sebastian?
Methinks NOT.
Pope Leo. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. God help the church.
Back at the time when that very religious man became Pope Leo XIV many people were glad because they earnestly believed that he would a much better pope than Pope Francis . Nevertheless, I was suspicious of him and keyboard on another sire that “It’s best not to be naive and trust him to much because history reveals that numerous popes had at first appear to be very good men ,but later they had proven by their actions and words that they were terrible men..”
what’s your response to the massacres of Christians by bloodthirsty moslems all over Africa and the mideast? I’ll wait, cowardly lion.
no, lioness, I constantly speak out against the horrors perpetrated against Christians and moslems who aren’t up to snuff and, therefore murdered by their own, and how girls and women in moslem countries are often genitally mutilated or honor killed or the girls who haven’t reached puberty are forced to marry men old enough to be their grandpas. What do you do other than bloviate about the Jews? you yawn because onlyJews are living rent free in your empty head.
What do you care Achmed? You aren’t a Christian. you are filthy lying P.O.S. Moooslime.
Your most desperate Jew hating post ever. Well done Achmed. Better get those prayer beads that stuck in your ass, assling.
Note how this son of a Nazi war criminal never gives “Mother” Agrapia’s Christian name.
It is Stephanopoulos.
Yes, THAT Stephanopoulos…
t would be nice if you pasted a URL to back up that the dude you mentioned is a son of a nazzi – Not important today for me to google it. Whether they are sons and daughters of nazziz, they are sons and dauthers of lucifer-satan in their souls with their lies!
I agree.
Unfortunately, the Courts and history textbooks — and even the Nazi Hunters themselves — were too scrupulous (IMO) to list the offspring and their names, the better that that could get on with their lives.
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In 1978, I encountered a female summer intern while working at HP Ft. Collins Co. who, upon being introduced around, pointed a finger at me and said “dirty lying Jew” …and then proceeded to brag on her uncle’s service while in the SS.
The company warned her after I complained, but I toowas reprimanded for calling her a Nazi bitch.
The Vatican has long been silent on the genocide of Jews! In fact, antiemetic in acts not words.
What does that tell me about human religion? Falls very short of connecting to GOD ALMIGHTY!
I have seen enough evidence of the truth of the Holy Bible in 40 years of research and personal life experiences to know what I have is a true connection to GOD and it’s not through religion which is a firewall between me and my Creator in which I must seek open ports to connect. to the Heavenly Host. I want to have no firewall between me and my Father Creator and Messiah Savior and Lord. My daily human life temptations is all I struggle with. Knowing I’m imperfect but still guided and not forsaken by God and Yeshua Jesus, I certainly do not want to add racism to the mix.
And that is what the Catholic church from the Vatican on down and woe so many Christian sect churches and self loathing Jews are guilty of – antisemitism, which is racism. Jews/Hebrews are a race. One can be Jewish without being a Hebrew, but all Hebrews are born into Judaism, even my Messiah Savior and Lord which gives me a boost.
Not only do I share genetic DNA with Jesus Yeshua but also spiritual DNA once I asked prove to me you are real and no matter what show me the truth, alone in my apartment in Santa Monica going on 40 years ago.
Lemme tell ya brothers and sisters, THEY have more than proved to me THEY are real and are still showing me and guiding me to the Truth. This is all facts!
Calling your bluff on this one. Identify every date on which you claim the pope has called for release of the hostages, and the publication in which it appeared.
“My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship…”
Smells a lot like globalism in here. I have heard rumors of a Catholic pope serving as the false prophet to the Antichrist and, well…after hearing this, I am starting to think that rumor might not be too far off.