"Unacceptable" , "unacceptable" – this was Pope Leon XIV's reaction to the world's first day after Easter by the president of the United States announcement of Iran's annihilation: "All civilization will die tonight and never be reborn" – unless Tehran unlocks the Strait of Ormuz.
This announcement was addressed not only to the Iranian nation and its ancient civilization, but besides to all of us. The Pope's reaction was 1 of a kind – diplomatic-ethical – of its firm condemnation, refusal of the right to appear.
Now that it is known that the cease-fire of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with the exception of Tel Aviv, has not brought any possible of ending it, it is time to summarize the efforts of an even more threatened planet for peace in the mediate East. If this remainder of the planet had taken on a diplomatic-media level a moral challenge, which Leon XIV had put to the American-Israeli aggressors, we might not gotta experience a fresh phase of concern for peace now not only in the mediate East, but elsewhere, besides in Poland.
If at least any crucial part of political leaders followed the example Leona XIV and said loudly that there are unacceptable preventive wars that lead the US and Israel, that for their invocation they endanger real sanctions, penalties, tribunals, exclusions from global public space – we would be in a different reality. If political and service leaders wanted to treat American-Israeli aggressors, although in any part as they treated Russia in 2022, defending a persecuted Russian-speaking number in Ukraine, we could say that they are not guilty of omission. However, the same decision-makers who condemned Russia were sanctioned, expelled from global financial institutions and systems, the planet of culture and sport, and treated the Russians in a racist way as subhumans – now abruptly they lacked the courage to say loudly: "the king is naked" that the US is no longer a planet hegemon, while Israel is simply a terrorist state, practicing a policy of expanding its territory through systematic genocide on Palestinians, and more late besides the Iranians and Lebanese.
None of the politicians of the collective West, led under the patronage of the United States to fall, utilized the historical minute to tell the planet that Trump's threat of annihilation of Iran is not a political excess of an unsustainable American president. It is simply a manifestation of a liberal-transatlantic civilization built under the aegis of the United States in a Zionist version, rejecting the existing divine order of the planet with its foundation of universal values: truth, goodness and beauty. No 1 had the courage to say loudly that this civilization prevented peace not only in the mediate East, but besides in Ukraine, due to the fact that it replaced the concept of safety based on the power of the armed manufacture and neocolonial conquest of the planet based on justice.
The honor of Western leaders of Christian civilization was saved by the president of Italy Giorgia Meloniwho took in the defence of the Pope criticized with rage by D. Trump and his surroundings. In a situation where even Hitler and Musolini did not officially attack Pius XII – which they unofficially forced to control to their side, and the Germans even devised a plan to kidnap him due to the fact that he tirelessly called for peace – the silence of the remainder of the leaders is meaningful. Trump's attack on Leon XIV can only be compared to Joseph Stalin's attitude, which at the 1945 Potsdam conference for information Winston Churchillthat the Pope did not like giving east Europe to the Communists – he answered with the question: and how many divisions does the Pope have?
The overwhelming majority of the global political establishment does not have the courage to even reprove the fallen hegemon. In their consciousness, there is inactive a false story – enslaving, overwhelming, demanding a solid analysis on the basis of political anthropology, which in Poland – unlike Russia for example – unfortunately does not exist. Polish Trumpists with president Nawrocki at the head abruptly took water on their mouths and pretend they know nothing about anti-Pope and anti-Catholic propaganda of their idol and political mentor in 1 person. For they have besides accepted for their “political values” of the American President.
Posthegemonic Morality
As part of the inactive alive story of hegemon, the normalization of U.S. war activities, ultimat strategies, sanctions, kidnapping sovereign presidents of states, taking control of their resources, planning further imperial aggressions etc. – presented by president D. Trump. This false story besides normalizes Tel Aviv's genocide policy and builds the large Israel – from Nile to Euphrates. Now that we know that the Pakistan-led dialog between the US and Iran has failed to end this senseless and unwarranted next preventive war in the mediate East, we are again under force from its escalation and the possible of further threats of annihilation of humanity.
In view of the dramatic course of mediate east events, is there a chance to reverse it? proceeding voices of politically correct criticism does not mean that its authors effort to defend the planet against the American-Israeli threat. 1 example is the gentle reminders of the aggressors from French president Macron, British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz. Politically incorrect, so rejecting the “values” of aggressors, was the message Khawaja Asifa, the defence minister of Pakistan, who powerfully condemned the Zionist policy of Israel and America. On platform X he wrote: “Israel is evil and a curse to humanity, while peace talks are ongoing in Islamabad, genocide is taking place in Lebanon." Without wanting to harm the possible of further peace talks, Pakistani minister removed his anti-Zionist entry from the platform. But he did not remove his position toward Israel from the historical record, for he did not change his position to a Jota. With harsh criticism of the American-Israeli preventive war and condemnation of Israeli genocide, the Spanish Prime Minister spoke Pedro Sanchez, at the same time prohibiting transit of defence materials for the Israeli army through Spanish ports and airspace. All these attempts to halt the American-Israeli threat are besides weak to be effective. The remainder of the global political establishment passively supports the ongoing clash of civilizations, which he announced – in another version – respective decades ago Samuel Huntington He's rooting for the collision of civilization of war and civilization of peace.
The silence of most political and opinion-making elites is worrying. These elites will not defend universal values – timeless, suprapolitical, rooted in the metaphysical sphere – due to the fact that they replaced them with American-Israeli values that they would not fight. Moreover, they will defend these fresh “values” in Western civilization, putting them above the universal values of Christian moral values. They besides do not object to what is “valued” in designation of the American president making self-deprecating, as expressed by his curiosity statement, that what is right and wrong, he decides himself.
Polish Marshal's Fight The Wizard with the US Ambassador Tom Rose president Trump is not an axiological character, he is not an argument about the civilization of peace, although he may seem so. Its manipulative nature was revealed by the equal reaction of both adversaries to the appearance Konrad Berkovich in a parliament where he compared Israel's genocide with the crimes against humanity committed by the 3rd Reich. At the same time, he showed the Israeli flag with swastika, which caused the rage of both the marshal of the Polish parliament and the Trumpet ambassador in Poland. Both condemned the Polish MP, and Marshal Czarzasta, demanding a severe punishment for him for showing the forbidden swastika in Poland, effectively diverted the attention of the cowardly parliamentary assembly from the motto of the incident: Israeli genocide.
In posthegemonic immorality there is no place for God and divinity, sacrum and profanum. The evidence to this is blasphemous graphics with Trump as Christ healing the sick, Pentagon soldiers as angels. From politicians he reacted Krzysztof Bosak, calling the graphics blasphemy. They spoke in the same spirit – strangely – Sławomir Cenckiewicz and Roman Gierty. And where are the voices of those literate politicians who, thanks to the Catholic electorate, came to power? Where is the outrage of Catholic hierarchs and Catholic media?
Roadless Christian Zionism
In consequence to the unparadoned attack of American president Leon XIV, he responded calmly and evangelically with the firmness of preaching the truth. On Trump's accusation that the criticism of his politics is unacceptable, and Christ's successor as head of the Catholic Church is “weak” so “should get himself together” – Leon XIV replied that “The mission of the Church is to call for peace and reconciliation" and he himself “does not fear the Trump administrationIt’s okay. ” He besides showed that for him it was more crucial than the debate with the American leader that he made a pilgrimage to the poor, conflict-ridden countries of Africa. He is traveling as a messenger of peace and reconciliation, a symbol of Christian civilization, against which the United States and Israel stand. Papal criticism of the U.S.'s mediate east politics, and within its framework the American-Israeli war with Iran is besides a criticism of Christian Zionism, which has become the authoritative ideology of this war.
A striking example of the fresh days of anti-Christian policy of these aggressors was the fire on the first day after Easter by Israeli papal convoy troops traveling with humanitarian aid to Lebanon. Although 1 of the vehicles contained an apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Paolo Borgia, the convoy had to turn around and aid the exterminated Lebanese did not reach. The approach to the innocent civilian victims of this war is the fundamental difference between the Christian civilization of peace and the ideologically built Christian Zionism the civilization of preventive war.
This difference was highlighted by the Archbishop of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Paul S. Coakley, who in his message laments Trump's attack on the Holy Father and stresses that: "Pope Leon is not his rival; the Pope is not a politician either. He is the Lord of Christ, who speaks in the name of the fact of the Gospel and in the care of the souls." Thus, erstwhile Protestant and Pentecostal American Zionists bless Trump for war alongside Israel with Iran, Catholic clergymen bless the pope on his peace mission. besides president of the Polish Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, thanked Pope Leon XIV for “the courageous words and fidelity of the mission of the Church”, while ensuring that the Church in Poland “remains in union with the Pope and prays for peace”.
Fortunately, this position is different from that taken by Polish bishops in an infamous heretic letter to the faithful of 22 March, in which they recognized the judaic nation as a victim of anti-Semitism, born from the "deficit of love" of Christians to Jews since the beginning of Christianity. At the same time, they called on Poles not only to cayate for this sin and to go to the synagogue, but besides to overcome this fatal “deficit” at a time erstwhile Israel, with the consent of his judaic society, commits genocide and prevents peace from reigning at the delicate point of the world, which late became the mediate East. This paper matters not only religiously; it is besides a evidence to what moral errors Christian Zionism can lead to in the Catholic version of Poland.
Prof. Anna Raźny
Think Poland, No. 17-18 (26.04-3.05.2026)
