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Meg Grant's avatar

That’s what they will be doing in the US to brown and black people! 😭

Philip's avatar

In Matthew 25 Jesus tells us whatever we do to the least of these we do to him.

Israel, America, and ALL other nations that are directly or indirectly involved, that aren’t speaking up and demanding that the genocide in Garza and wherever else the killing of men women and children is taking place at this very moment are guilty of the crime of murder, the murder of the children of God, and in affect murdering Jesus again.

There is NO way one can endorse the killing of another human being and claim to be a follower of Jesus Christ.

Lor's avatar

The cruelty is the point over and over. The liars are lying. Trump and the republicans are going to kill poor and old people. They don’t care about their constituents.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

When a pope speaks with more prophetic clarity than half the UN combined, you know the Holy Spirit isn’t whispering anymore. She’s shouting.

This isn’t diplomacy. This is slow-motion genocide on a livestream. And Leo just dropped the thurible and said what too many cowards won't: starvation is not a side effect of war, it's the strategy.

Heaven is watching, yes. But so are the hungry ghosts of every empire that thought it could outlast the truth. Gaza will not be forgotten. Neither will the silence of those who could have spoken and chose the comfort of complicity instead.

Amen to Leo. And amen to every soul refusing to call this 'complicated' when it’s just evil wrapped in policy.

JaySo's avatar

Not only starving people but setting up food stands and shooting, killing and wounding the starving people who come to get the food.

Maureen Flaherty's avatar

The world appears to have decided to become stone deaf.

Kevin Cushing's avatar

Israel is the last bastion of Western imperialism.

Hey! I’m Back!'s avatar

I ❤️ Leo, honestly. But the problem isn’t only the UN imo. Israel has forbidden UN humanitarian aid and has commandeered their ships, etc. Israel and the US have instead installed the Gaza ‘Humanitarian’ Foundation to distribute flour bags drugged with Percocet that Palestinians are murdered over. I’d say the only way to get the UN involved is militarily, with peace keeping forces. Do they still do that?

Leasa Yoshida's avatar

It’s Pope Leo. Respect.

Hey! I’m Back!'s avatar

I do respect Pope Leo. But I’m also a realist. ☮️

Jen Ballew's avatar

Next up… Catholics need to mobilize and all take action. I hope he calls on the Church to fulfill its mission.

Mary Angela Sheridan's avatar

Pope Leo spells it out-" Starving people to death is a very cheap way of waging war,it must end."

Mimi's avatar

Over 60 international corporations have profited off Israel’s genocide and prior to that apartheid. Please read this UN special report precisely on the subject.https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

GBH's avatar

The perfidious have long been our enemy - the Church use to know how to handle this situation.

Jenny Benjamin's avatar

… thy will be done earth as it is in heaven…

Gladwyn d'Souza's avatar

The first ceasefire veto in December 2023 that predicted 2M would starve for a Biden Christmas has come to pass but the UN still hasn't declared a famine in Gaza bowing instead to the abject moral failure of the USA through the settler colonial controlled security council. 422 congresspersons need to hear from us.

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Jo Blackwood's avatar

Don't call it alligator alcatraz! Call it what it is...alligator auschwitz!