Today was the feast of the Exaltation of the True Cross. This is the AD ~630 event by which Heraclius made a deal with the crumbling Sasanian authority to retrieve what the last effective shah, Khusro II Aparwez, had taken. That shah by the way had been Christian-curious himself; but on his death, the West could hardly trust that his mutually-fighting successors could keep this relic safe.
From what I have seen today, I wonder if Heraclius should have bothered.
What we parishioners got in our homily, almost fourteen centuries later, was general pablum about self-sacrifice and the Cross of Christ which Charlie Kirk himself might have delivered. We did not get any note about the risks Kirk had himself taken for this faith. We did however, after the service during the announcements, get rather a lot about... Gaza.
Sure: Kirk did not die in this Church. I understand that he came into Christendom from the Protestant or even Waldensian direction. A hardcore might argue that if a pagan (jack-Mormon, possibly, I didn't look it up) hits a heretic, that Problem be Somebody Else's. Maybe.
That would, I counter, go double for Jew-versus-Muslim. When I think of Catholicism, I typically do not see Gaza. Christians in the Holy Land at this point are willing hostages to one side or the other. Presently in Gaza that side is Islamic.
I suspect what is going on, among our Bishops, is a distraxion. They see that the terminally-online youth are increasingly in the Third World Ideology, which is anti-Jewish. They are pandering.
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