Papal Hypocrisy Exposed
Pople Leo 'Forgets' to Mention Bondi Victims in Christmas Address
For those wondering, he didn't actually 'forget' to mention it and he's not senile; he chose to focus everyone's attention on Palestinians and ignore the Jewish bodies filling cemeteries due to rampant unchecked antisemitism.
Oh, Holy Father, how convenient your compassion proves to be. In your inaugural Christmas message as Pope Leo XIV, delivered from the gilded balcony of St. Peter's Basilica amid the pomp and piety of the season, you waxed poetic about the "tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold." You invoked the fragility of war's victims, declaring that Jesus himself identifies "with those in Gaza who have nothing left and have lost everything."
Touching, isn't it? A shepherd mourning his flock in a far-off land ravaged by conflict. But wait, where was your lament for the Jewish blood spilled just days ago in Sydney's Bondi Beach? Where was the mention of the terrorist massacre that claimed 16 innocent lives, including children as young as 10 and elders up to 87, during a joyous Hanukkah celebration? Crickets from the Vatican. Absolute, deafening silence.
This isn't mere oversight; it's a glaring, gut-wrenching display of selective outrage that reeks of hypocrisy and, dare I say, a lingering whiff of institutional antisemitism that the Catholic Church has spent centuries trying to exorcise. On December 14, a father-son duo, radicalized by Islamic extremism and armed with ISIS flags, explosives, and guns, stormed a festival of lights, turning it into a slaughterhouse. Forty-two more were hospitalized, their bodies riddled with bullets in an act of pure, unadulterated hate against Jews. Australian pastors and survivors have linked it directly to Quranic calls for violence against "infidels" and "polytheists, "code for Jews and Christians.
And yet, in your grand Yuletide address, not a whisper. You condemned the "senselessness" of wars in Ukraine and Syria, but the targeted murder of Jews in a Western democracy? Apparently not senseless enough to warrant a papal nod.Let's be clear: You did issue a tepid condemnation the day after the attack, calling it a "terrorist massacre" and "antisemitic violence." Bravo for the bare minimum. But why bury it in a fleeting statement while elevating Gaza's plight to the centerpiece of Christmas?
Is the suffering of Palestinians, tragic as it is, somehow more importrant than the agony of Jewish families burying their loved ones amid the holiday lights? Your words drip with empathy for one side of a complex conflict, ignoring the Hamas rockets, the October 7 atrocities that ignited this mess, and now, the global ripple of jihadist terror like Bondi. It's as if the tents in Gaza are the only shelters worth shielding from the cold, while Jewish victims are left out in the rhetorical frost.
This isn't new for the Vatican. Your predecessors have tiptoed around Jewish suffering before, remember Pius XII's infamous silence during the Holocaust? You've inherited a throne built on such equivocations, and today, you've polished it anew. By spotlighting Gaza without context or balance, you feed into a narrative that paints Israel as the eternal aggressor, conveniently forgetting that Hamas hides among civilians, uses tents as shields, and perpetuates the very misery you decry. And Bondi? That's the real-world consequence of unchecked radicalism, yet it's absent from your sermon.
Shame on you, Pope Leo.