Within his religious status as the most prominent leader of sanctified Catholic clergy today, Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in remembrance and honor of that exceptional, indeed, believed Divine Jewish Man, Jesus (of ancient Israel 2,000 years ago) and revered by Christians as the Prince of Peace, because he was a man of healing to both Jews and Gentiles; not a man of violence. Therefore this latest successor to the chair of St. Peter established in Rome by the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; in continuation of the Apostolic tradition to bring their message of eternal salvation "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 13:47.) While receiving abuse in his Holy name. (JN 15:21 "If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also." "For there is no other name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12.) In Jesus my Lord. ...more

May 23, 2009

War in the Gaza Strip demonstrates yet again that the current governance paradigm for the Palestinian people has failed. Terrorists financed and supplied by Iran control Gaza; the Palestinian Authority is broken, probably irretrievably; and economic development is stalled in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are suffering the consequences of regional power struggles played out through them as surrogates. ...more

January 7, 2009

Encouraged by renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Christian pilgrims from around the world converged on Jesus' traditional birthplace Monday to celebrate Christmas - a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years. ...more

December 25, 2007

This week's Mideast peace conference is unlike any previous U.S. attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because the price of failure has risen dramatically: Radical Islamists could gain the upper hand in Palestinian areas and in an increasingly polarized Middle East. ...more

November 25, 2007