newsEaster Day 2026: At long last, the Pope has ended the silence of the Christian lambs
Pope Leo X1V, the first North American pontiff, told tens of thousands of worshippers who gathered at St Peter’s Square in Rome on Easter Sunday, that those with weapons should lay them down.
It’s Easter Sunday and the Pope will deliver the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing from a balcony at the Vatican to tens of thousands below. As the world watches and waits, one thing is crystal clear. Pope Leo’s papacy has entered a new phase – one marked by direct confrontation and a willingness by the world’s largest Christian body to challenge the deranged leader of America and the nodding dogs of war who surround him.
By Trevor Grundy
So-called Christian leaders who stand to attention and salute when Donald Trump plans a deal – however idiotic it might be – are calling on their version of God to inflict damage on millions of people in the Middle East with a deadly and dangerous promise to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age.
On April 2 Donald Trump said –
“We’re going to bomb them back to the Stone Age where they belong.”
The following day, Trump’s de-ranged secretary of war Pete Hegseth echoed his master’s voice and added –
“Almighty God, who trains our hands for war and our fingers for battle – Grant this task force clear and righteous targets for violence. Break the teeth of the ungodly.”
Before addressing Trump by name, Pope Leo delivered one of the strongest moral rebukes of war heard from a pontiff in decades.
He said that God rejects the prayers of leaders “whose hands are full of blood.”
Any-one with half a brain knew who he was talking about – who he was pointing at.
His comments promoted a rebuttal from the White House.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt did what she does 24/7/365.
She defended her orange boss saying that that there was “nothing wrong with military leaders or the president calling on Americans to pray for our service members.”
Marie Dennis, former co-president of the Catholic peace and advocacy group Pax Christi said: “He (Pope Leo) is speaking from a heart broken by relentless violence. He is reaching out to people who are exhausted by war and hungry for courageous leadership.”
Courageous leadership in the spiritual as well as the political world.
In a few weeks from now Charles and his wife Camilla will set off for a visit to America. There, they will meet, greet and eat with men with more bombs than brains.
Charles goes there as king, not as a religious leader.
But he is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England which claims to be the nation’s moral watchdog.
I wonder how he really feels about meeting-up with men spouting their obscene versions of the teachings of the Pale Galilean while planning to bomb millions of people back into the Stone Age.
“Should he go?” is one question.
“Without selling his soul, how could he?” is another.
- On Easter Sunday 2026 this was posted on the BBC website. They are the words of a madman.” Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. – President DONALD J. TRUMP”
- Middle East crisis live: Trump says he is ‘not at all’ worried about possible war crimes as his deadline for Iran nears -The Guardian headline on 7th April 2026