@dwnews Logically Iran can’t possibly have opened the Strait of Hormuz and remain under a blockade.
That’s like saying party at my house but I can’t come in.
@DailyMail Logically Iran can’t possibly have opened the Strait of Hormuz and remain under a blockade.
That’s like saying party at my house but I can’t come in.
France and Greece are set to renew their defense pact next week as the European nations seek to further shore up their deterrence strategy https://t.co/WPInuKqGIj
BREAKING: A senior Iranian military official told state TV that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will require IRGC permission.
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Europe’s biggest private equity firm, EQT, says the path to exiting investments in clean-energy developers and operators faces a growing number of hurdles https://t.co/LNM5iv2e71
The Pope started a fight he had NO BUSINESS starting.
Romans 13:1-7
Submission to Governing Authorities
1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I'm sure.
I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.
This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.
But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.
Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.
But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.
The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
@itvnews Why talk when you haven’t shown that you can do until after it’s been done.
Those talks should have occurred the same day Iran closed the Strait
@JokerNov@thehill In Iran, women are often killed due to gender-based violence, which includes "honor killings" by male family members and violent repression by the state against women. These acts are driven by patriarchal control mechanisms and a lack of effective legal protection for women