I’m not sure where I read this recently, but an official in Russia has said no to Pope Leo’s offer to come to the Vatican for peace talks. (Russia and Ukraine) Well then. Might the Pope go to Moscow?
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025...ate-venue-for-peace-talks-with-ukraine-a89201 Here’s an article.
I see Pakistan, a major nuclear power, has come out in very strong support of Israel calling on all Islamic States to unite in their support. All this becomes more and more dangerous with each passing day, talk about playing with nuclear fire: https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...uslim-countries-to-unite-101749902755305.html
It really, really is a heart stopping moment. Like some truly awful nightmare taking place right before our very eyes. The thing is ordinary working people in whatever country you might go to really, really do not want any of this. But the elites , the people who rule us really, really do. It is as though some madness has suddenly possessed them. I was listening to a homily, a very good homily from the late and very saintly Father Mark Beard yesterday. One of the things he underlined was that the devil takes a bottom down approach. He goes for the people who control things first. Our Lady has spoken about this several times in her messages. So when we talk about things like a New World Order, I don't think it is a crazy conspiracy theory, it really is happening. These people really do a have a huge, huge hunger for a great reset. War being the fastest and quickest way to accomplish this. At least so they think. Father Mark Beard was wonderful .I listen more and more to his homilies these days. I do hope they canonise him. A truly wonderful priest and prophetic.
Prayer is like any other activity we engage in in that it is good to have a fixed schedule for the things we do, otherwise we wind up not doing them. So if we have certain devotions like the rosary, or the Stations of the Cross I think it is good to have them fixed at a certain time and maybe even a certain place. Jesus said that when we pray we should go into our room to pray. In His day I think this meant a little prayer alcove. But in saying this I believe He was indicating a certain determined practice or way. That we need a schedule or way or place of doing things to tie us down to. An anchor, if you like.
Wow - my wife and I were talking yesterday about where we will place my beautiful twenty inch statue of our Lady of Fatima and she said let us put it in the alcove upstairs and we could place flowers of the fairest and maybe even a kneeler to encourage more prayer. So, Padraig, you have confirmed in my mind it is the alcove. God Bless you.
Brilliant. I think we're broadly, and narrowly (!), in complete agreement. But, I couldn't have expressed it so succinctly and so eloquently. The Jews, if they want to stop losing, must become Catholic (and not equivocal Judeo-Catholics, either-the Temple is dead).
They did, over a point of theology that very few people lose sleep over. A prideful rejection of Papal authority by some Orthodox patriarchs at the time, who were more interested in power than theology, I'd suspect. It might have been resolved long ago, only for that awful sacking of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade.
Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif said that all Muslim countries must unite against “Israeli aggression”. Pakistan on Saturday came out in support of Iran after Israel launched a series of blistering attacks on the Middle Eastern country's nuclear program and its armed forces.
Pakistan dances according to Western directives and is in the hands of the Jews... The only ones who are not are Yemen (Houthis), Lebanon (Hezbollah) which are under constant attacks and Iran which was the only one that had peace. In Syria, Al Qaida was brought to power and miraculously they first killed minorities such as Alawites and Christians, and now in Syria, Israeli planes are refueling and flying towards Iran because reaching Israel would be too far for bombing. All Muslim countries (Jordan, Iraq, Syria, ...) participate in shooting down Iranian missiles towards Israel... There is no Muslim unity, but a bunch of factions and personal interests. 25.3.2025. Tulsi Gabbard: "It is the consensus of the intelligence community that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon" The same was said about Iraq, Assad was a dictator, Mubarak was a dictator, Palestinians are terrorists, Lebanese are terrorists...Nobody is good except Israel which bombs everything and everyone.
The divide between Sunni and Shia is all part of this, of course. On the basis that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the stance of India would be interesting.
India has tense relations with Pakistan and a large Muslim community where relations are very bad with frequent attacks. They put all Muslims in the same basket, they don't care if they are right or wrong when they are victims. Look at the right wing in Europe, outraged by the Muslim invasion of Europe, they support Israel regardless of whether crimes are committed or not. People in Croatia see the conflict in Ukraine as a replay of the war during the breakup of Yugoslavia where we were attacked and if you deviate a little from the path you are immediately a Russophile and a Putinist. It's like the Irish justifying, for example, some atrocities against the English because they once caused them great pain. It is difficult for people to separate their own situation and then confuse the morally right from the wrong out of a desire for revenge. People today are driven by such hatred and revenge that it is difficult for them to hide it at all. A few decades ago, not even that long ago, no one would attack people praying the rosary on the streets and in front of hospitals. Even liberals who wouldn't do that wouldn't dare take away someone else's freedom. Today they consider it their duty, even if they attack someone, it is their pleasure.
Some pundits say that there is a bunch of Jews in Israel who believe that the Messiah won't come until the Jews are punished for their sins and they think that a war will be the punishment. They want the war, thinking that when enough of them are punished the Messiah will appear. I'm not sure, but I've heard other comments along the same lines about Evangelical beliefs except that the Evangelicals believe it will bring the conversion of Jews who don't die in the war. Fr. Kirby explained in his Bible study that Genesis is about God freeing his people to enable them give him proper worship. The Jews don't give proper worship and rebuilding the Temple won't change that. In one Bible Study (I think it was Fr, Kirby's) it was explained that the plagues in Egypt were the one true God deposing the false Gods of Egypt. I won't try to explain it as he did because I'd only make a mess of it. I wonder how the one true God will depose the money god. Iran is not strategically important to Israel because they don't share a border. It is strategic for NATO because only the Caspian sea separates it from Russia. Not a single Sunni Muslim country in the region came to the support of the Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinian Muslims are Sunni. Turkey is probably the worst. Turkish apologists say that Turkey with the biggest army in NATO dare not risk a nuclear attack from Israel. Turkey actively helped Israel. Now, the USAF is on the way to Saudi, preaumably to carpet bomb Iran. Expect the Saudis to roll out the red carpet for the USAF.. There are some reports of the Israeli planes operating out of the British base in Cyprus, Other reports say that the Isrseli planes are being refuelled in mid air, and a German tanker plane was spotted over Syria. It was spotted when the pilot briefly turned on his responder by mistake. The US removed sanctions on Syria. Evidently, dress code is all important to civilised Americans. Meanwhile the genocide continues in Gaza. The Americans have installed some shady outfit that calls itself humanitarian. They appear to be working hand in glove with the Israeli death squads, So, three countries with a track record of ethnic cleansing and genocide - The US, UK and Germany - have united with the Israelis for this blood bath. The head of the IAEA who fingered Iranian scientists to the Israelis seems to be Catholic. He's a graduate of a Catholic university in Argentina and has received an award from the Vatican.
They've taken out Ahmadinejad and his wife and two sons. The Messiah might come, but it might not be what the Jews are expecting. Nor the Christian heretics, many of them who seem to be Catholic, or imagine they are. It's hard to think but that Christ will return in wrath. Edit: now reading reports that it was a failed attempt. Hopefully.
That's more or less it. They use bases in Cyprus, in Syria...Two days ago, a British F-35 ended up in India because it ran out of fuel and was defended the skies over Israel from Iranian missiles. . The problem is the supply, Syria had to fall because the route from Israel to Iran is too far for any military plane to have fuel to get there and back. What worries me and what I know is more or less 100% that the US will get involved and that it was decided long before the war even started. Probably when Trump announced his candidacy for a second term. The government has long been not accountable for its actions to the people, but to the financiers. The US is preparing the ground for an attack so that military ships and the carrier are out of range of Israeli ballistic targets, the goal is to crush Iran from the air, which has never acquired Russian anti-aircraft defenses. The Jews are quite strong in Russia and the question is how much Russia will get involved in this conflict. The Chinese are also out of the conflict, although realistically, if Iran falls, then the space opens up for Russia to be attacked from the south and a corridor to China. If the US enters a conflict with Iran and it is not over quickly and Russia and China step in just to supply weapons, we will have a new Vietnam that could lead to the fall of the US as the No. 1 power and debts and major unrest if a large number of American soldiers die. Iran is a country of 100 million people and they have probably been preparing for this for years. I know it's not all conspiracy theory, but it begs the question of how much of the MAGA cult was actually orchestrated and prepared for all of this that's happening from the very beginning. How much of Trump is actually a cuckoo's egg that has been prepared for what's coming from the very beginning of 2015. We could get the answer very soon, probably if the US gets involved in the war.
Another not good sign. All US Navy ships left the military base in Bahrain and entered the Persian Gulf. The distance to the south of Iran is 200-250 km, almost the front line. The fleet consists of destroyers with Aegis and Tomahawk missiles, frigates, air defense ships, minesweepers, logistics and allies (Britain, France, Australia).
