“Catholic pilgrims spend virtually all their time visiting holy sites in Palestinian-run territory, staying in Palestinian Arab hotels and listening to Palestinian Arab tour guides. As a result, these pilgrims return filled with hatred towards Israel.”
Pope Francis should repudiate these tours, withdraw these bus ads, and apologize. But he is probably too busy participating in the latest “dialogue” about “Islamophobia.”
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Vatican buses promote trips to Jerusalem, ‘Palestine,’” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, November 23, 2016:
It was no secret that Catholic tourist maps and pilgrimage brochures omitted the name “Israel”, using instead the sanitized expression “Holy Land”, one of the visible effects of the Catholic “replacement theology”, which adopts a de-Judaizing language.
It was no secret that Catholic pilgrims spend virtually all their time visiting holy sites in Palestinian-run territory, staying in Palestinian Arab hotels and listening to Palestinian Arab tour guides. As a result, these pilgrims return filled with hatred towards Israel.
The Vatican bears a great responsibility in this ritual, since the “Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi”, which manages these tourist tours, is the Vatican office that organizes pilgrimages to Christian sites around the world.
That is why I was shocked when a friend sent me this picture from a bus in Rome, in which the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi sponsors a trip in “Palestine”, “the holy land”, with iconic Christian sites in Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem.
In 2004 the Catholic bishops of England and Wales released a note to Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem not to take an Israeli bus “the day after a sheikh was assassinated”. A shocking and disgusting note, when Israeli mothers had to decide to send children in different buses so as not to take chances during a spate of horrific bus bombings by Arab terrorists- and in case that occurred, to save at least one of them….

P2 says
Do Catholics adhere to Replacement Theology? I can’t think of any other reason for the antisemitisn displayed by the Catholic hierarchy, now Jesuit controlled.
Steve Klein says
I think so.
AnneCrockett says
I think the idea is specifically excluded. “God holds the Jews most dear for the sake of their Fathers; He does not repent of the gifts He makes or of the calls He issues-such is the witness of the Apostle.(11)”
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
However, one would be hard pressed to find a worse crop of people than those who currently serve as bishops, cardinals and pope.
mortimer says
The only way to stop this DHIMMI THEOLOGY is to withhold money. Don’t use pilgrimage travel agencies that shovel this BS.
RCs will just have to withhold their offerings and tell the Vatican why they are doing: The supreme leadership of the Church is HERETICAL … THE POPE IS TEACHING DHIMMI THEOLOGY.
Steve Klein says
AnneCrockett, Giulio Meotti wrote: According to the narrative offered by the Vatican authorities, “peace” is contingent on Israeli concessions and efforts to dismantle the Jewish State. Vatican leaders use deicide imagery in reference to Israel, they portray Israel’s efforts to prevent civilian casualties as “collective punishment,” without mentioning Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad’s war crimes. Israel is associated with “militarism,” “colonialism,” and “injustice.” The Vatican is becoming an unabashed apologist for Arab rejectionism, wrapping genocidal violence against Israelis in the mantle of innocents suffering and caricaturing the Jews as a divinely forsaken people, superseded in God’s favor by “New Israel,” stripped of any right to a land or a future.
Steve Klein says
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
“….Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures….”
A Harris USA says
The Catholics are fooled by a pope who is anti- everything but Islam, and himself. Screw that guy and the followers of the false pope.. I will see Israel with anyone but their weak foolish pandering to terror!!
joe says
As a catholic, this pope does not speak for me. John paul 2, we love you!
Pong says
The one who kissed koran ? I remember him.
joe says
He did more to bring freedom and bring down the iron curtiain, freeing millions. Screw you
gravenimage says
This was foolishness on his part, but I doubt it was intentional evil. Pope John Paul II was a very ethical man, as seen by his defense of the victims of Communism.
Sadly, too many Western leaders have been mired in ignorance of Islam–including most pontiffs.
Mac-101 says
The Pope sure appears to be the False Prophet. It sure looks like end times when the Church is against Israel and the Democrat Part is also, and you KNOW who supports the Donkeys against their own best interests. IS Satan responsible?
mortimer says
DHIMMI THEOLOGY.
john spielman says
Dope Francis; as corrupt in his theology as the Borgia popes were in their life styles
mortimer says
Frances went to school with SNL Fr. Guido Sarducci:
“I got this idea for a school I would like to start, something called the Five Minute University. The idea is that in five minutes you learn what the average college graduate remembers five years after he or she is out of school.
Theology, I’m gonna have a theology department, you know, since I’m a priest, and what you have to learn in theology is the answer to the question, “Where is God?”, and the answer is, “God is everywhere.” Why? “Because he likes you.” That’s kind of a combination of the Disney and Roman Catholic philosophy. It’s just perfect for the late 70s or early 80s you know, just perfect.”
Carolyne says
I remember Father Sardicci Didn’t he carry his “Confessional” umbrella, with a cloth between him and the confessor? “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
A Harris USA says
AMEN John S!!!
Ciudadano says
I don’t get this. When I visited Isreal most christian meaningful places were in Isreal. Bethlehem was the only place I visited located in Palestinian controlled territories. I think any sane person would prefer to stay at the isreali side.
Bill says
My Pope has sure lost me. I can understand better now how there can be schisms in the Church. Too bad that he cannot be voted out by the people.
AnneCrockett says
#PasMonPape
A Harris USA says
You need to give up on the Roman Church, they have lost their way, oh around Vatican II.. How about Orthodox churches for you?? That is what I did!!! Ever SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad I no longer follow the fake pope!!!!
somehistory says
More bowing to the beast. It will only bring death, and condemnatory judgment from God to those who bow.
Revelation 13
Steve Klein says
I do not believe the Roman Catholic Church is Babylon. In antiquity Babylon was a conglomeration of peoples. It was great economic (commercial) power in the world. Babylon is a world power; an empire. It is not a religion.
somehistory says
Revelation 13 is about people being forced to bow to the wild beast from satan. I wasn’t referring to Babylon, who rides the beast in chapter 18.
But, Babylon was the city where Nimrod began an opposition to God, and God confused their languages…thus the tower of babel was discontinued.
The city of Babylon was a great world power, and it persecuted the Jews, finally destroying the Temple and taking captives. Nebuchadnezzer tried to force the Jewish captives, and all others in the realm, to worship the idol he had made. Daniel and his three companions refused to bow down, and the three were thrown into the furnace for their refusal. Daniel had his turn to face death in the lions den later on. Religion was very important to the people and government of Babylon. From its very beginning with Nimrod.
That was all from satan, just like islam today.
It had its own role to play and pictures certain things going on today.
Rena says
My understanding of Revelations Chapters 17 and 18 is that Babylon, the great whore, the great city that reigns over kings, Babylon the Great, is the combination of the world’s economic, religious and political systems. These are manmade systems and will be brought under God’s judgement in the last days as described in chapter 18. God’s warning to His people is to find salvation and safety in Jesus Christ and “come out of her (Babylon) and escape God’s wrath that will be revealed in seven plagues against her sins.”
Laura says
A Woman Rides the Beast, Dave Hunt, is an excellent expose of said corruption.
R Russell says
Part of the End Time apostate church
eur says
I do not agree with this post. The term Palestine is commonly used in my country in the ecclesial sphere in a non-political way to define the Palestinian holy land. The term Israel has never been used for that reason. Palestine has nothing to do with fucking Islam and crazy Muslims … now in what was Palestine there are many Muslim Arabs … ok … and? So we have to ban the Palestinian term? To ban everything is already Islam, I am free to say Palestine to refer to holy land. Islam poisons everything ..
Angemon says
Yeah, the co-opting of the term “Palestine” by the descendants of the Arab invaders and their KGB enablers only served to murk the waters.
RCCA says
Why use the word Palestine at all? The term “Holy Land” has been used for centuries. I’d say the use of the term Palestine at this point is deliberately political and provocative.
Real McCoy says
Is Palestine mentioned in Quran?.
Jerry says
“Palestine” or “Palestina” was the name given to Judea by the Roman Idolator invaders.
It was named after the invading Philistines who were ethnically related to the Greeks and the Finicians.
The so called “Palestinians” are not much different from the Egyptian, Syrian Jordanians and Saudi Arabs in ethnicity, language and predominantly Muslim invaders.
The “Palestinian Nation” is a recent Muslim invention which disingenuously seeks to blame the Jews for all the ills of the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Islam is viciously opposed to any Jews, Christians, Hindus, adherents of other religions and Atheists and seeks world domination and the extinction of all other religions through violently comelling conversion to Islam and the genocide of all those who would not convert.
The genocidal Islamic agenda is dressed up in deliberately misleading and sometimes falsely peaceful propaganda in languages other than Arabic in order to confuse the non-Muslims.
The Islamic agenda is best articulated in Paragraph Seven of the “Hamas Covenant” which states, inter alia that: “…the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).”
(See the English Translation at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp )
It is absolutely clear that the origin of that genocidal agenda against the Jews has nothing whatever to do with “Zionism” or the State of Israel or any “occupation” because it originates in utterings of the self appointed false prophet about 1400 years ago.
It is also clear that even if all Israeli Jews decided to disband Israel, bequeath all of Israel (or “Palestine”) to the Muslims and commit mass suicide by collectively drowning themselves in the sea, the Islamists will never be satisfied until they committed genocide against all the remaining Jews of the world.
For those readers who are not Jewish who may ask “What does this have to do with me?” the simple answer is that the Jews are first on the Islamist genocidal targets but they are also on the list of those that the Muslims wish to exterminate.
The Catholic Church with the Pope at it’s head and others are guilty, when using the term “Palestine” of trying to de-legitimise Jewish existence in Israel, the Holy Land and making it easier for the Islamists to pursue their genocidal agenda, firstly against all Jews but, ultimately against all non-Muslims.
Carolyne says
Great Comment, Jerry. Perfectly describes the Muslim goals and what we are up against. I knew about the talking stones, but didn’t know about the Jewish tree. Didn’t know trees had religion, either.
gravenimage says
eur, the term “Palestine” was used by Jews to refer to the Holy Land during the first half of the 20th century. You often heard Jews thinking about moving to Israel saying “Next year in Palestine!”.
This is no longer the case. After 1967, and increasingly as time went on, “Palestine” has come to refer exclusively to *Muslims* claiming Israel. It is virtually impossible to use the term at this point without its having this meaning.
Valerie says
We have always referred to that region as Palestine without it meaning the state. I remember Christmas carol sheets that went to the schools in 1969 that were sold to raise funds for children’s charities in Palestine.
mortimer says
STOP PRESS!
‘Israel’ or ‘Israelite’ are mentioned 73 times in the New Testament. ‘Palestine’ is not mentioned one time in the NT.
Steve Klein says
ZOA Retracts Criticism Of Vatican That Was Based On Erroneous Article By Respected Journalist
For more information contact Morton A. Klein 212-481-1500
NEW YORK, December 1, 2016
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) retracted its criticism of the Vatican for organizing and promoting tours of Christian sites in Jerusalem as part of tours to “Palestine,” omitting any references to Israel and to Israel’s Jewish identity. The ZOA’s criticism – set forth in agiu press release issued on November 29, 2016 – was based on a report from Giulio Meotti, a reputable writer for Il Foglio, an Italian daily. The report was inaccurate. It now seems that the Vatican travel office does not organize tours of Christian sites; they are operated by private contractors. The ZOA regrets the error.
Steve Klein says
If Giulio Meotti got this one wrong, he will cease being a respected journalist. I for one, will never use him or quote him again.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
so,filthy american christians are supporting evil jews against their fellow christian arabs.if they are truly christians, they must be stupid.is that type of christianity mad trump preached to you and you elected him?.the crusaders did the same when they included christian arabs among those mass-murded in palestine.now the jews are carrying out killings of palestinians including christians,yet filthy american christians are saying jews are right
gravenimage says
Vile Muslim apologist ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
so,filthy (sic) american (sic) christians (sic) are supporting evil jews against their fellow christian (sic) arabs.if (sic) they are truly christians (sic) , they must be stupid.
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What–is muhammed here asserting Arab Christians’ “right” to be oppressed and slaughtered by his foul coreligionists? Sure sounds like it.
More:
is that type of christianity (sic) mad trump (sic) preached (sic) to you and you elected him?.
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Donald Trump is not a Christian cleric, and he does not preach Christianity. Does ie surprise that this Mohammedan does not grasp the concept of the separation of church and state? No, it does not.
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the crusaders did the same when they included christian (sic) arabs (sic) among those mass-murded (sic) in palestine.now (sic) the jews (sic) are carrying out killings of palestinians (sic) including christians,yet (sic) filthy american christians (sic) are saying jews (sic) are right
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What absolute claptrap. Israel is the *only* place where Christians are safe in the Middle East. Christians are not just oppressed in the Muslim Middle East, but are being systematically driven out and murdered there, including in the “Palestinian territories”.
somehistory says
He’s just a creepy, sicko troll who tries to get under the skin of Christians and others who support Israel’s right to exist free of daily murders and calls for genocide against the Jewish people.
It is *he* who is the filthy one. And he knows he lies.
gravenimage says
Thumbs up.
Ernie says
Thank you , Somehistory !
Carolyne says
Jews are right.
dave de la Rond says
Wheres have the Jew haters in the Vatican been the last 30 years while Palestinian terrorists like Arafat and now Abbas have cleansed Bethlehem from all Christian life ,stealing their homes and Businesses .Shame on the Pope ,He’s witnessing the islamization of Europe and doing nothing about it.
Carolyne says
Actually, I think the Pope is doing something about it. He is encouraging it.
Elizabeth says
It seems to me that the Pope of No Hope has become the mouthpiece of the United Nations and is deliberately pushing the passive invasion of Western countries by unsuitable, illegal arrivals. Or, he is getting Alzheimer disease or other dementia. Either way, this makes him a dangerous man to my way of thinking. Islam does not belong in the West and never, ever shall belong, not in a million years!
ibrahim itace muhammed says
gravenimage, you are liar of the century.to say muslim and christian arabs enjoy some right under evil jewish occupation is the greatest lie i ever read or heard.go to occupied palestinian territory and arabs in israel to see by yourself.pop knew the horrible treatment being meted on plastenian arabs on daily basis. you are saying all these because you believe that evil jews are children of god and can kill non-jews like cows without blame.one jewish rabbi issued a religious decree in the light of evil talmud that a fingernail of a jew worths one million arab lives.pursuant to that you can see israeli forces going on rampage carrying out indiscriminate killings of palestinian arabs.
Jremy says
to be so stupid must be very painful take two toxic pills and bang your head on a landmine !!!!!
gravenimage says
Repulsive Muslim apologist ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
gravenimage, you are liar of the century.to (sic) say muslim (sic) and christian arabs (sic) enjoy some (sic) right (sic) under evil jewish (sic) occupation is the greatest lie i (sic) ever read or heard.go (sic) to occupied palestinian (sic) territory and arabs (sic) in israel (sic) to see by (sic) yourself.
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Well, Muslims in Israel are not allowed to wage violent Jihad against the “filthy Infidels”, so I suppose muhammed here feels they are ‘persecuted’. And Christian Arabs in the “Palestinian territories” *are* threatened–but by Muslims, not Jews.
Certainly, they are free to practice their faith in Israel itself.
Notice that muhammed here never actually cites any supposed unequal treatment, because he cannot. Of course, as an irrational Mohammedan, he does not believe that he should have to.
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pop (sic) knew the horrible treatment being meted on (sic) plastenian (sic) arabs (sic) on daily basis.
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Is muhammed referring to their being screened for weapons before being admitted into Israel proper? Oh, the humanity! sarc/off
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you (sic) are saying all these because you believe that evil jews (sic) are children of god and can kill non-jews (sic) like cows without blame.
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What absolute claptrap. No one is saying this, least of all myself. It is Muslims who slaughter unbelievers, not Jews.
The idea that saying that Jews should be able to live free of fears of being mass murdered by muhammed’s homicidal coreligionists is somehow Jewish supremacism is just ludicrous.
Angemon says
The Ebionite heretic posted:
“gravenimage, you are liar of the century.to say muslim and christian arabs enjoy some right under evil jewish occupation is the greatest lie i ever read or heard.”
There’s no Jewish occupation in Judeia. There is, however, Arab occupation.
“go to occupied palestinian territory and arabs in israel to see by yourself.”
Yes, the poor little Arabs in Israel are so oppressed that they are represented in the Israeli Parliament, and use it as a soapbox to denigrate Israel and advance the “Palestinian” lie.
“pop knew the horrible treatment being meted on plastenian arabs on daily basis.”
“Palestinians” are taught, cradle to coffin, to hate Jews and the Jewish state. When they go on killing sprees against Israeli citizens they get neutralized. Is taht what you’re referring to?
“you are saying all these because you believe that evil jews are children of god and can kill non-jews like cows without blame.”
And now you supposedly know what GI thinks. You should join a freakshow. Mr. Mind-reader…
“one jewish rabbi issued a religious decree in the light of evil talmud that a fingernail of a jew worths one million arab lives.”
Citation needed.
“pursuant to that you can see israeli forces going on rampage carrying out indiscriminate killings of palestinian arabs.”
That doesn’t happen outside the imaginary world you get trapped on when you’re off your meds.
Creole Gumbo says
I am not sure that this is anything new. The Catholic hierarchy has always, as far as I know, referred to this area as The Holy Land or Palestine.
I attended Catholic Schools all of my life and had always heard of this area referred to as Palestine or The Holy Land. I clearly recall that circa 1962 my aunt traveled to that area and sent us a post card saying, “I am in The Holy Land now” and at 13 years old not knowing exactly what country that was. I did not hear it referred to on a consistent basis as Israel until I attended college, UCLA, which was predominantly Jewish.
marty says
The vatican has a 1700 year long hatred of Jews that has no indication of ending. muslims burning churches doesn’t matter to the vatican. catholic anti-semitism has been consistent for nearly two millenia.
Carolyne says
The custom of Jews saying “Next year in Jerusalem” at Passover and Yom Kipper is as old as the 13th century and reflects their longing for all Jews to return to their traditional homeland. Since many Jews now live in Jerusalem, they say “Next year still in Jerusalem.”
RL Robison says
I’ve come to the conclusion that Pope Francis is either criminally naive or simply off his rocker.