“The Gravest Sin” — Pope Leo XIV’s Middle East Envoy Rebukes Hegseth for Invoking God in Iran War

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem — who has walked the rubble of Gaza — responded to the Secretary of War’s Crusade theology with the sharpest rebuke from the Catholic Church yet.

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Last Tuesday, Pete Hegseth stepped to the Pentagon podium and told reporters that the day ahead would be “yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.” Then he bowed …