4d ago

Israel attacks the only Catholic church in Gaza, Pope Leo sends thoughts and prayers

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1945845592594248152#m

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/strike-gaza-catholic-church-kills-two-injures-several-patriarchate-says-2025-07-17/

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-07/the-parish-priest-father-gabriel-romanelli.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/17/live-israel-bombs-syria-as-latest-strikes-on-gaza-kill-at-least-93?update=3843041

Al Jazeera says that the church was shot at directly by a tank. Other articles only use the word "strike".

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Pope won't even name who did it lol.
- I'm more convinced than ever that he's an Opus Dei sleeper agent who Francis never should've trusted
  
  I know people from the opus dei, i'll try to dig their opinion on him.
- He can blame the victim with a “quit slapping yourself” vibe so that the culprits can rejoice.
The deus vult guys should be all over this. It's the perfect opportunity for Pope Leo to consolidate power by calling a Crusade against the Zionist Entity. I would unironically join the Catholic Church and go on Crusade, as I'm sure would many.
- "You think the pope is a lib because he's too 'woke.' I think he's a lib for not declaring a crusade on Isreal and AI. We are not the same."
  
  Butlerian ~~jihad~~ crusade
- Holy wars: famously minimal in their civilian casualties, targeted in their destruction, and compact in their duration.
  Edit: One of the times the Catholics did this, they consumed the flesh of their slain enemies. Really the less they are involved in whatever happens there the better.
  
  If the Catholic Crusader armies want to consume the flesh of their slain IDF enemies they're allowed to, a little, as a treat. I honestly cannot give less of a shit about "civilian causalities" in a holy war against the Zionist Entity.
  
  Im not trying to defend the Catholic Church here. It is an institution that as far as I can tell have been right on precisely one issue in 1000 years (Eugenics, they were opposed). But the last crusade was in like the 17th century, even if you're only counting crusades in the middle east we're in the 14th or 15h century.
  
  what's a little cannibalism when your enemy spermjacks their own soldiers?
- "Ooops we ''''''''accidentally''''''' conquered Istanbul again."
- being based is not on their repertoire.
Real actual "Where is your god now" hours.
You can take the pope out of America but you can't take America out of the pope.
The church knew what it was doing when it picked an American pope. Get closer with Europe since he is anti-trump, and align with NATO and American status-quo because he would never insult Israel
- I read somewhere that part of the reason why they picked a yanqui pope is that rich yanquis are some of the only people still donating to the Vatican.
If he had balls he'd move the entire papacy temporarily to that church and use his and all the other old fucks bodies as human shields for the innocent people.
"military attack", whose military you fucking stooge.
A friend recently told me about how they make a habit of attacking Christian churches during Easter. It's wild how Evangelicals support them.
- It's a means to an end. Just like everything else they do.

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