I agree with Rabbi Shmuley’s main assessment that Pope Francis needs to show moral clarity and stand with Israel against those who seek to destroy her. However, to no fault of his own, Shmuley’s argument is based on false premises,
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his Mideast pilgrimage Monday with a balancing act of symbolic and sometimes spontaneous gestures to press his call for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and friendship between Jews and Muslims in the
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago. “Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew,” Netanyahu told Francis, at a public meeting
On Monday while visiting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at the terrorism victims’ memorial. The pope leaned against the wall engraved with the names of Israeli victims
No one can deny that Pope Francis is a man who walks the walk. While many disagree with his neo-socialist world-view, who can feel anything but respect for a world leader who eschews the perks of office to champion the
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust, kissing the hands of six survivors in an emotional ceremony at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial on Monday as he capped a Mideast trip with poignant stops at some of
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — As Pope Francis made his way Sunday to preside over a Mass in the West Bank, he made a surprise stop at the wall separating it from Israel. Photographers and onlookers rushed over to watch
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pope Francis visits Mideast to urge freedom of religion The schism of the Orthodox and the heresy of the Protestants Pope Francis’s visit also commemorates forgiveness of Jews Pope Francis visits Mideast to urge
The UN torture committee has concluded that the Catholic Church is not guilty of torture or in violation of international law. In a report issued today, the UN torture committee does criticize the Church for its handling of various abuse
“Impure Pope: Leave Our Country,” read one sign held up by a protester, former Israeli legislator Michael Ben Ari, objecting to Pope Francis’s visit to Israel this week. The Pope’s arrival–and use of certain holy locations–have sparked both a wave
Despite the fact that the Holy See has recently been excoriated by two U.N. Committees for its beliefs about sexuality and abortion, the U.N. is finding use for the Catholic Church in Pope Francis’ expression of support for global awareness
Pope Francis is preparing to embark on what he calls a “purely religious” trip to Israel and Jordan, accompanied by leaders of the Argentine Muslim and Jewish community. The Pope is expected to pray in Jerusalem and host a mass
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Pope Francis will arrive this weekend in the land where Christianity was born — and where Christians are disappearing. This ancient community has dwindled to around 2 percent of the region’s population as economic hardship,
VATICAN CITY, May 20 (UPI) — Twenty-six Italian women, who say they are in love with priests, wrote Pope Francis to ask him to end the celibacy mandate and let them marry. The Vatican Insider newspaper reported that the 26
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS–One of the more influential leaders of the Catholic Church came to the UN Thursday to deliver a strong message about the importance of the family. At a side-event organized by the Holy See, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president
Thursday on Fusion TV’s “America with Jorge Ramos” when pressed if this is actually the last America will see of the journalism icon, Barbara Walters said, “If the Pope said he would do an interview, would I come back? You
Pope Francis received the family of deceased Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá Wednesday and discussed the state of the Catholic Church in Cuba as well as the “Cuban reality” facing those living in the communist nation, according to Payá’s daughter
A group of four self-proclaimed female Catholic priests from Southern California who are part of a larger, international group of 180 women who were excommunicated are reportedly defying the Catholic Church by pushing to oversee the ordination of female priests despite
Politically left-wing Catholic pundits seem very eager to use the words of Pope Francis to pounce on political conservatives who criticize or even question the sometimes confusing Tweets and other statements of the Pope. The most recent example includes a
On Breitbart News Saturday, Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor in Chief Alex Marlow discussed Pope Francis’s remarks to the United Nations where he called for “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State,” using government and the private
Prince Charles has had to replace the Queen in a traditional ceremony after she decided she would be unable to climb a steep flight of stairs. The 88-year-old monarch was due to take part in an ancient installation ceremony for
Pope Francis met with the Secretary General of the United Nations along with the heads of all the major UN agencies. In his message he directly and indirectly mentioned the thorny UN issue of abortion. Francis told the gathered heads
As previously reported by Breitbart News, the Harvard Exchange Cultural Studies Club wound up in the middle of a controversy Wednesday when an event announced for May 12 began to look like a serious attempt at denigrating the Catholic Church. As
The U.N. is cracking down – on the Vatican. A U.N. committee said Monday that the numerous cases of sex abuse by priests should be prosecuted and dealt with by the Vatican as cases of torture. The committee wanted to know why the
A popular Catholic blog, Protect the Pope, will close tomorrow after the Bishop of Lancaster refused to let its author continue writing. The blog, written by Deacon Nick Donnelly, was set up prior to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the
It’s so predictable: When Pope Francis reminds the world that he is pro-life, the right cheers and the left sulks. But when the Pope reminds people that he is on the economic left, the left cheers and the right sulks.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa honored Pope John Paul II in Rome this week, where he noted that is was “the value of God and the Spirit” that won the war against communism. In his statements, he compared Poland to
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Nine years after his death, Poles are once again lauding their beloved countryman, Pope John Paul II, as he was declared a saint in an unprecedented Vatican ceremony Sunday. Bells tolled across Poland and the crowds
Broadcasting live from the Holy See, President Clinton’s former Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn, told Breitbart News Saturday host Stephen K. Bannon that Clinton refused to take a call from the man greatly responsible for the dismantling of the
John L. Allen Jr. writing at the Boston Globe: This will be the first time two popes have been declared saints in the same ceremony, and although projections vary, well over a million people could turn out in Rome to
The Costa Rican woman whose healing is the reason late pope John Paul II will be declared a saint on Sunday spoke with emotion about her trip to Rome, saying she would gladly travel the world with a message of
The Telegraph reports that a divorced and remarried Argentine woman states Pope Francis telephoned her at home and told her she “is not doing anything wrong” if she receives communion. According to the report, Argentinian Jacqui Lisbona wrote to the
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Celebrating Easter Sunday, Christianity’s most joyous and hopeful day, Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine and Syria and for an end to the terrorist attacks in Nigeria that have targeted many Christians. More than 150,000
On April 19th, Egypt’s retired Field Marshall “and presumed presidential front-runner,” Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, visited the Coptic pope. This is el-Sissi’s “first public appearance since he formally made his bid for the presidency.” According to The Washington Post, Pope Tawadros II
On Thursday, April 17, known as Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday on the 2014 Christian calendar, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Pope Francis both participated in a foot-washing ritual, but apparently with very different goals. The pope stressed
On 60 Minutes Sunday, CBS aired an interview with President Obama about his impression of Pope Francis after he met with the Pontiff at the Vatican in March. Obama also praised the Pope’s simplicity and spirituality. Obama explained that the
Credere, a Catholic weekly, reports that the Vatican has decided to employ a hawk to protect the Pope’s doves, after two doves were killed by a crow and seagull on January 26th. The doves were promptly killed by the birds
The Hollywood Reporter writes that the Vatican Newspaper “Avvenire” blasted Russell Crowe’s “Noah” as a “lost opportunity” that presented “Noah without God” and turned the Genesis story into something “ecologically, and vaguely new age, transforming the Biblical tale into a
(AFP) Italy’s Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino plans to make a debut television series entitled “The Young Pope” about Lenny Belardo–a fictional first-ever Italian American pontiff, an Italian daily reported on Tuesday. The name of the actor who will play the
At 12:30 p.m. every Sunday at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in the coastal Orange County town of Costa Mesa, California, first-time Mass attendees may think they’ve stepped back in time. Some women in the pews are wearing lace
