The Popes Make Most Catholics Antisemitic
On October 7th, 2025 the new Pope Leo XIV (who had only held office for 5 months at that point) approached a group of reporters and made a short prepared statement on the second anniversary of the October 7th 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. He said that Hamas had killed over 200 Israelis on October 7th when in reality it was over 1,200 Israelis murdered, and then he went on to quote the Hamas Ministry of Health statistics on casualties for civilians in Gaza, claiming 67,000 civilian deaths, instead of the IDF casualty statistics for targeted combatants that totalled 53,000 in May 2025 where all were enemy combatants and leaked IDF data shows that 8,900 were targeted, named militants on their most wanted list. The Vatican put out corrections and walked the 200 number back within hours, and some news sources did change what he said to 1,200 Israelis killed, but any one of the 1.3 billion Catholics on Earth that heard him live heard him say 200 Israelis were killed, and then claimed that 67,...