By: Kayhan Int’l
Although he will not admit it in any synod, let alone in public, the most indelible impressions the Leader of the Catholic sect of Christianity took back to Vatican from his two-nation West Asian visit, were the portraits of Martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah waved on his arrival in Beirut by thousands of Lebanese Shi’a Muslims.
Along with their Christian compatriots they had lined the streets to welcome him with the national flags of Lebanon in their hands, and of course, flags of Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah, to signify their craving for the elusive peace in their homeland, which is constantly the target of the Zionists, the avowed enemies of Jesus (peace upon him).
Perhaps this moving scene inspired Pope Leo XIV to quote the famous phrase attributed to the Virgin-born Messiah in the Gospel of Saint Mathews “Blessed are the peacemakers” (5:9).
He did not meet any leading religious or political member of the host country’s largest single community, the Shi’a Muslims (approximately 40 percent of the population) and confined himself to Christian gatherings, telling the Levant before his departure to reject wars.
As a US citizen, Robert Francis Prevost, dare not denounce the crimes against humanity of Israel, which continues to scandalize Jesus and his mother Saint Mary (peace upon them), though he is fully aware of the genocide of the Palestinian Muslims and Christians in Gaza, and the daily bombing of Lebanon.
In short, in a visit which largely ceremonial and without any political implications or ground realities, he tried to play safe, fully aware that his visit does not serve any purpose, end Israel’s aggression, heal wounds, and bring peace.
As long as the likes of Donald Trump the Villain of the Piece, sit in the White House and fund the rejecters of the Messiah with money and weapons, no peace will ever take place, not just in West Asia but also throughout the world.
The Pope knows these facts even though he said in a gentle tone urging the US to stop its incursions in Catholic Venezuela.
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