Maybe Pope Leo XIV was engaging in some kind of Jedi mind trick to get people to read the Bible for themselves when he claimed Jesus Christ opposes all wars.
But assuming he was not, his overarching pacifist statements, apparently primarily directed at the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, do not comport with Scripture, whether the Old or New Testament.
One of the Pope’s missives came on Palm Sunday at the end of last month, when he posted on social media, “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’”
He added in that same series of posts, “King of Peace. He did not arm himself,
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