Urban II initiated the First Crusade and Julius II, patron of Michelangelo and founder of the Swiss Guard, was known as the Warrior Pope due to the wars he fought to safeguard the Papal States. History is a good deal more complicated than Pope Leo believes it is.
I wonder where he got the warrant to determine that God doesn’t listen to prayers. Does he buy the “two-way radio” theory about the Papacy and God?
Asking, you know, for a friend…
I am so very disappointed in Pope Leo XIV. He demonstrates a significant deficit of Biblical and Church history knowledge, and he happily ingratiates himself with liberal progressive European, Canadian, and Australian leaders who malign and marginalize the Catholic Church, and with Muslims who want to destroy the Catholic Church. As I held his predecessor in contempt, so also him. He may be a validly elected Pope, but he is a very bad shepherd indeed and I shall not follow him. There’s 2000 years of Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scriptures which refute his pusillanimous, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, cowardly ideology. I wish he would return to Chicago from whence he came or to Peru where he was religiously formed. Yes, let us pray for him. Well, I pray that God deposes him and moves the Catholic Church to anathemize him, his predecessor, and all their works of liberal progressivism.
I may be wrong, but the Pope’s quote does not even seem to be referring to war, but the sacrifices offered by the *priests*
11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. 12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? 13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. 14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely.
It seems more likely to be condemnation of bad worship, perhaps innovative worship as well…
Correct. A Pope should be far above misusing Scripture.
I find it hard to believe that Leo does not know the context.
I find it harder to imagine a charitable reason why it would be used out of context.
How many listening, in our poorly catechized age, would even *look* for context?
“Pope should be far above misusing Scripture.”
But a Democrat will deliberately and intentionally misuse Scripture to serve a preconceived ideological end.
PS, the Bruised Optimist is 100% correct. But Democrats don’t care about context, and rest assured: being from Chicago, Pope Leo XIV is a Democrat first and a Pope second.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them…”
The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Lepanto, the Siege of Vienna, St. Joan of Arc lifting the Seige of Orleans— not only did God listen to the prayers of those who fought, but he performed miracles to show His favor. Or at least that is what the Church taught until Leo and his ilk came along.
Sigh. Yet more Papal horse hockey.
Usquequo, Domine?
This one’s right up there with Francis’ scolding us saying faith isn’t some kind of suit of armor.
Honestly, right now I have to wonder if I’ve overestimated Pope ¡Lio!’s intelligence, or if he’s underestimating ours.
LQC, the Democrats have been lying to people ever since the first one was recorded as saying, “You will not certainly die.”
St. Jerome agrees with Bruised Optimist about Is. 1:11-14. Cf. Commentary on Isaiah, St. Jerome interprets Isaiah 1:11-14 as a condemnation of mere external formal or false worship, but that worship and those sacrifices are mere lip-service offered by oppressive and sinful leaders.
Pope Leo’s scriptural training (if he is writing his addresses himself) does not appear strong. Twisting scripture for one’s agenda is a hallmark of his predecessor.