Tucker Carlson just did a brilliant monologue about the death of American Protestantism, attacking Franklin Graham for using the Bible to support genocide.
Missing from @TuckerCarlson's account was the fact that @BishopBarron was on the same stage with Graham paying mute tribute to the same corrupt empire, causing scandal and becoming an obstacle to Carlson's conversion to Catholicism.
Thank you SOOO much, Laura, for shining a light on this issue so more people get the truth.
The reality is, President Trump desperately needs the advice that Tulsi gives, that Joe Kent gave, that I would have provided – which would have kept America safe, powerful, and all of our troops alive.
Unfortunately, he listens to people who agree with you, and that has us into a war we cannot win, has caused damage to our military, and death to our personnel, and has now harmed the global economy.
There is no military solution to opening the Strait of Hormuz, which would never have been closed had it not been for the war of choice that President Trump made.
And it is a black-and-white fact that he and secretary of war Hegseth are advocating war crimes, and likely have committed many.
What you advocate is most assuredly not America first, it in fact *harms* America. The more the administration listens to your advice, the more damage it will suffer and harm inflicted on all of us, and the weaker our national security will become.
Thank you for highlighting this issue, I am most grateful.
In your estimation, how would this be reconciled with the teaching of PP. St. Pius V, Benedict XIV and Pius XI, along with the prayer formulated by Pope Leo XIII? They witness to a unique Jewish responsibility in the crucifixion.
“The Jewish people, the only nation once chosen by the Lord, which was infused with divine utterances to be a partaker of the heavenly mysteries, as much as it excelled all others in grace and dignity, only afterwards, despised and neglected by the merit of its unbelief, deserved to be overthrown, because, when the fullness of time had come, it treacherously and ungratefully condemned its Redeemer to an unworthy and impious death.” (Hebraeorum Gens)
“On this account they [the Jews] are scattered through all lands in order that they may be witnesses to Our redemption while they pay the just penalties for so great a crime” (A Quo Primum)
“He appeared in the flesh, the Christ who took His human nature from a people [the Jews] that was to crucify Him.” (Mit brennender Sorge)
“Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the [Jewish] race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.” (Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus)
Muhammad was in his final year of medical school in Gaza when he was kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli military while caring for his patients.
Two weeks from his final exams, he begged to be released, so he could live his dream of being a surgeon.
The Israeli guard then shot off both his thumbs. Did Canada give Israel the bullets?
Watch the press conference demanding an end to Canadas support for Israel's ongoing genocide
@AnitaAnandMP@MarkJCarney stop weapon transfers now. End diplomatic relations now.
I and others have subscribed to this declaration.
A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity
To the peoples of the world, to thinkers, to scholars, and to those who believe in justice:
A specter now haunts the conscience of humanity—the return of predatory power— and it shall no longer go unchallenged.
For 249 years—spanning the entirety of its existence since 1776—the United States built a record of atrocity that belonged to a darker, pre-civilised age; predatory empire erected on the corpses of nations; from the genocide of nearly 5 million Indigenous peoples, to the brutal enslavement of over 4 million Africans, to the lynching of more than 4,000 Black citizens under Jim Crow. With over 800 military garrisons poisoning more than 90 foreign countries and territories, it cultivated a doctrine of absolute predation. From the genocidal horror of Vietnam, with over 3 million dead; to the annihilation of Cambodia, where 2 million perished under American-backed terror; to the systematic slaughter of Koreans, with more than 4 million Korean lives extinguished; to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, where one million Iraqis and tens of thousands of Libyans were consumed by American fire.
Yet the rational order that governs the world once helped humanity move beyond such practices. Humanity had consigned this barbarism to history. But now we are witnessing its return. The ongoing, systematic immolation of Gaza through the sustained support for the genocidal Israeli regime, where over 77,000 civilians in Palestine have been butchered—the scale of this atrocity reveals an inescapable truth: the pre-civilised practice has returned, and Washington has once again become its willing executor.
This is the demonic creed of “everything for us, nothing for others.” With shameless rapacity, it claims the resources of the world—whether the oil of Venezuela, the mineral wealth of Greenland, or the energy reserves of Canada—as objects of strategic entitlement. And now, that gluttonous eye fixates on Iran. Because Iran—possessing over 7% of the world’s mineral and energy wealth—is seen as the final frontier of plunder.
Yet this is no longer a matter of economics. It is a matter of honour. The world witnesses that the
United States is actively engaged in a criminal enterprise termed the “Ramadan War” against the Iranian nation. This ongoing butchery has already claimed the lives of 208 innocent children. Let the world mark the date—168 of them were little girls, elementary students at the Shadjareh Tayyebeh School in Minab city in Iran, extinguished in their classrooms by American-ordained terror.
Their futile and desperate contrivances aim at so-called “regime change” and the fragmentation of Iran—stripping the nation of its sovereignty and, thereby, facilitating the systematic plunder of its resources. In pursuit of this ultimate depravity, the U.S. brutally assassinated Iran’s spiritual and intellectual leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei—recognised globally as a voice against arrogance and terrorism—along with his family.
They have waged a war of targeted terror against the very pillars of the Iranian state. To date, American aggression has criminally murdered 39 Iranian statesmen, including the scientific genius Dr. Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
Now, the insolence has reached its zenith. The American President openly threatens the Iranian people on social media with the destruction of their energy infrastructure. This is the depraved spirit of a decaying civilisation. The moral collapse of the West finds its embodiment in the pathetic figure of Mr. Trump—a man whose catastrophic conduct over the last two years has exhausted not only the world, but his own people. The time has come to declare, with one voice: Enough! The era of pillage is over.
But the United States has made a fatal miscalculation. What stands before it is not merely a nation, but a civilisation that has weaponised its own DNA—ancient organisational genius fused with 21stcentury scientific sovereignty. This is the reality of active deterrence by Iran; a global pole of power that dictates the terms of engagement, forcing strategic retreat by rewriting the very rules of active defence. Now, its adaptive reorganisation, civilisational continuity, and social unity have fused into a singular, unbreakable force.
Iran’s all-encompassing defence and active deterrence represents a golden opportunity to end global hegemony. The historical and civilisational doctrine of Iran is absolute: power does not confer right, and domination cannot serve as a foundation for justice. This is recognised as the bedrock of Iran’s invincibility. The world may avail itself of this historic turning point, drawing upon this very doctrine of liberation, to bring an end to domination and oppression wherever they may exist.
US and Israeli exceptionalism has dragged the world into an epoch defining choice between might and right, sovereignty and subjugation, dignity and dishonour. This moment must serve as the wake-up call for humanity to recognize that there is another way. It must impel people everywhere to do everything in their power to challenge the structures undergirding a global system that desecrates every moral value including the right to life itself.
Iran is the final frontier. If it falls, the hope of a better, enlightened future for the world dies with it. We cannot let that happen. The aggression against Iran is part of a system of global power that oppresses all of us. We cannot afford to stand by and watch arrogant authoritarianism running amok. Our very future depends on the success of Iran.
Therefore we cannot countenance any outcome of this war that involves a return to the status quo ante. Those who inflict such suffering must be made to pay a hefty price for their crimes. They must be made to realise that military might does not absolve them of the responsibility to uphold the laws on which the peace and security of our world depends. To that end, we support the terms set out by Iran for ending this war.
From the perspective of global justice, the terms for ending this war are absolute and non-negotiable:
1. Guarantees against repetition and a binding international commitment ensuring no future aggression.
2. The immediate dismantling of all American military installations in the region.
3. Formal admission of aggression, international condemnation of the aggressors, and full reparations for life and property.
4. An immediate end to war on all regional fronts.
5. A new legal regime for the Strait of Hormuz, recognising Iran’s sovereignty.
6. The prosecution and extradition of operatives in anti-Iranian media who have incited this bloodshed.
We, the undersigned in spirit, call upon our peers, the thinkers, the scholars, the institutions of conscience, and the advocates of justice across the world:
• Condemn the United States unequivocally for its systematic normalisation of contempt for international covenants and its reversion to the spirit of historical savagery and barbarism.
• Isolate the rogue regime of the United States diplomatically and economically for its ongoing crimes against humanity.
• Recognise Iran’s inherent right to active deterrence against unprovoked aggression.
• Demand the immediate cessation of American and U.S.-sponsored terrorism and the prosecution of those who order it.
As it has always done, history will record the courage of those who refuse to remain silent. We stand with justice—not as passive witnesses, but as active architects of a new world that has reached its threshold where arrogance crumbles and righteousness prevails. The arrogant must be dismantled. The world demands it. Justice will enforce it.
Signed in solidarity
@CatholicRob This was no misstep. They are trying to push for closure. They failed and will go at it again in the next couple of years , in a different manner.
@DanLairdMD@FredSimonTLM The decision to close a church rests with the local ordinary - NOT the secular authority. Cdl. Pizzaballa clearly was not in agreement with this act by Israeli authorities.
This is one of the biggest things holding us back from our dreams, and breaking through this barrier means you will lose your patronage.
It makes sense why you are so sensitive about the issue, though — your very livelihood depends on it.
Exactly right, @Catholicizm1.
The obligatory opposition to Jewish Zionism and messianism by all Catholics must be greater than merely opposing the rebuilding of the Third Temple.
Rather, the entire Jewish project of political control and sovereignty in the Holy Land must be opposed, along with all those who aid or abet with financial or moral assistance.
The grand Jewish empire which the carnal Jews are striving to build, which they mockingly call “Israel”, stands in complete and total opposition to the true Israel here on earth, the Mystical Body of Christ, which is the Catholic Church.
“Make no mistake; the traits of the Talmudic messiah are indeed the traits of the Antichrist. It is the same sinister character who is announced from both sides [I am come in the name of my Father and you receive me not, but when another will come in his own name, you will receive him, John 5:43]: a man of the Jewish race who will become king of the Jews and will concentrate in his heart, his discourses and his works, all that the malice of the centuries could pit against Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Church. And God, for the completion of His mysterious designs, will allow him for a time to control the most formidable empire all over the world.” — Msgr. Henri Delassus, 1899
@piersmorgan So Iran can hit the UK but doesn't, what does that tell you compared to Israel who attacked first?
Who has more restraints? Who is of more threat?
@AmericanReform_@BishopBarron Hence the modern state of Israel has no right to exist, as it will seek power all the time on an equal footing to carry out it's nefarious deeds.
I'm about 15 minutes in to @PierrePoilievre's interview with @joerogan. About 12 minutes in they start talking about MAID, where Poilievre says people "should have the choice". A few minutes later he talks about how his favourite psychologist is Viktor Frankl.
Frankl actively opposed assisted-suicide, and knew that seeking to eliminate suffering often ends up eliminating the suffering person.
"Every life, in every situation and to the last breath, has a meaning, retains a meaning. This is equally true of the life of a sick person, even the mentally sick. The so-called life not worth living does not exist." - Viktor Frankl