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Fr. Mario Alexis Portella: The Precariousness of Christian Zionism  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Image by Grok. "Christian Zionism's hope that Zionism will bring about the Parousia is theologically empty".

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 24, 2026

Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, J.D., J.C.D. is a priest of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and a Visiting Professor at ITI Catholic University in Trumau, Austria. He holds a doctorate in canon law and civil law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

Christian Zionism’s hope that Zionism will bring about the Parousia is theologically empty.

United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a noted Christian Zionist, speaking on The Tucker Carlson Show last Friday, said Israel would be “fine” to take control of territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. Huckabee was pressed repeatedly on the biblical boundaries he cited as divinely promised to the Jewish people as the host asked him “what land” specifically he was talking about, noting the remit in the biblical book of Genesis is greater than the borders of modern-day Israel.

Such a border is alluded to in the expansionist idea of a “Greater Israel,” an ambition understood by some to encompass land across several modern states, including parts of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as Palestinian territories. ….

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