Madonna has called on Pope Leo to travel to Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis, asking him to "bring your light to the children before it's too late."

“As a mother, I cannot bear to watch their suffering. The children of the world belong to everyone. You are the only one of us who cannot be denied entry,” Madonna wrote in an Instagram post on Monday.

“Politics Cannot affect Change. Only consciousness Can. Therefore I am Reaching out to a Man of God,” Madonna wrote in the caption of her post.

  • LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.oneOPEnglish
    73·
    2 days ago

    The Crusades were dark times especially with the Knights Templars at the Pope’s disposal. The height of their power and tragic end is incomparable to anything that I know of today.

    If the photogenic Swiss Guards are anything like the Swiss Army, they wouldn’t be capable of invading anyone except Lichtenstein, lol.

    Much love and No disrespect to the Swiss, their Army and the Swiss Guards

    EDIT: Clarified the difference between Swiss Guards and Swiss Army with links from Wikipedia and We Are The Mighty.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      42 minutes ago

      Dang, just took the whole war romanticism out of my sarcastic remark about the renewal of the crusades :(.

      So you are saying Vatican doesn’t have holy hand grenades, holy dove fighter jets, holy cherub bombers, holy drones dispersing holy water & holy napalm, etc?

      • LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.oneOPEnglish
        52·
        2 days ago

        Ugh, sorry. I wasn’t trying to crush your groove. FWIW, I do admire your sense of humor and bringing up the Knights Templar was romanticizing war…

        So you are saying Vatican doesn’t have holy hand grenades, holy dove fighter jets, holy cherub bombers, holy drones dispersing holy water & holy napalm, etc?

        Seriously?!? I have so much holy water from the Vatican replenished each year that it may be enough to end the drought in Gaza. You want a holy machete? You got it! You want a holy cow? You got it! But not on Fridays. You want an aerial assault with holy water balloons? You got it.

        Better yet, I can send you some holy water to make your own holy 💩! Be warned: sprinkling your doors and windows each night with holy water will not stop vampires from entering your home! 😂

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
          21·
          2 days ago

          bringing up the Knights Templar was romanticizing war

          Lol, yes but fake romanticising ofc, the whole thing was always just individual money-grabs & war profiteering (you can clearly see where the war support stops - once they get them out the gates, unprepared but equipped). Like any war really.

          And no, vampbros are chill. And holy water probably makes them sparkle or some shit like that. They are too hot as is.

          … do you think Vatican has a giant holy mecha pope wielding dual nunchucks (that is two pairs of nuns tied together with a heavy duty chain)?