Indeed. That’s why I sarcastically asked about him having perhaps once having worked for the NY Times. What he did is a favorite MSM technique.

Yes. There are tons of Bee Gees interviews on YouTube, and on some of them they sing with just a guitar, in the middle of the interview. I’ve probably watched all the interviews they ever gave 🙂 . They have lovely speaking voices and are usually very funny.

Pope Leo is committing a classic homiletic error called proof-texting, a miscreant behavior usually strongly associated with TV evangelists. Basically, he has taken 15b (when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood ) about ignoring the prayers due to the blood and related it (war and its damages) to something the rest of the passage makes clear it doesn’t reference. The passage is talking about the hypocrisy of the offerings at the temple and that they do not please G*d because the hearts of the people are NOT in the prayer. The blood referred to is that of the offerings in v 11, not any result of war or violence.

Even odder the passages specified in the liturgy for Easter Sunday were First Reading :Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Responsorial Psalm:Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 “; Second Reading : Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8
Gospel: John 20:1-9 or Matt 28:1-10. None of this is Isiah 1. Passages from Isiah 9 (And Unto you this day a child is born) are often read at Christmas, Passages from Isaiah 52-53 (the Suffering Servant) are often read on Good Friday.

So Pope Leo has not only picked a particular bit of text out of its own context but has pulled it into the context of Easter Sunday one of the MOST attended masses at St Peter’s. One presumes his familiarity with the scriptures and with basic interpretation of it is better than this usage would indicate, Thus he has decided that this particular war is worthy of attention, even though it clearly falls within the rules of Just War theory both Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello as called out by St Augustine of Hippo and St Thomas Aquinas in laying out the Catholic churches view on war and its validity.

Pope Leo ignores his own churches traditional teachings on war and instead leans into US politicians from the Chicago area and their desire to derail the US intent.

Maybe Chicago Bob should reconsider.

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Similarly with Alexrod, I understand what what Neo is driving at and I think Turtler has it right. Alexrod wasn’t going to convince Leo of anything, nor did he need to, but he certainly reminded him of shared interests with the Democrat/Leftist cabal. It’s also worth noting the revelation of Trump axing about $11 million in funding for Catholic Charities in the US about two weeks before Palm Sunday (not after as most “news” articles on the action suggest.)

I think Isaiah 1 describes our current culture, and the hands full of blood refers to the modern slaughter of innocents. God calls us to turn from our evil ways.

This complete cleansing described in Isaiah 1:18 is only possible through the salvation that comes by faith in Jesus Christ — His death paying the penalty for our sins and His resurrection giving us new life.
If we repent and put our trust in Jesus, God promises to do exactly what He said in Isaiah 1:18: wash our sins completely away, so we stand before Him pure and forgiven.

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins…” (Ephesians 1:7)