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When Generals Pray and Popes Object, by Francis P. Sempa – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

When Generals Pray and Popes Object, by Francis P. Sempa

Our Untouchables, by Randall Smith

March 31, 2026

OPINION: Bishop Barron Canonizes Judas Iscariot on Palm Sunday, by Chris Jackson

March 31, 2026

Gen. George S. Patton and Gen. J. Lawton Collins attends the funeral of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. in Normandy on July 13, 1944. Roosevelt died shortly after D-day. Date 13 July 1944. ... This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

By Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator, March 30, 2026

From Bastogne to Iran, the case for just war — and a God who sometimes answers.

Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday announced to the world that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” That statement would have surprised Gen. George Patton and the men of the Third Army who in December 1944 were stalled in their drive to relieve the American paratroopers at Bastogne, and it would have surprised Father James O’Neill, the Chief Chaplain of the Third Army, who responded to Patton’s request for a “weather prayer” by writing one that caused Patton to award him the Bronze Star. Perhaps Pope Leo should take the time to read Alex Kershaw’s book Patton’s Prayer, which tells the story of Patton’s request for divine intervention to help win the war against Hitler’s Germany.

Pope Leo’s Palm Sunday sermon focused on Christ as the “King of Peace,” and the Pope rightly prayed for peace in the world — that’s what popes are supposed to do. But they are also supposed to recognize that sometimes wars are between the forces of good and forces of evil — the conflict in Iran is such a war. …

When Generals Pray and Popes Object, by Francis P. Sempa

Our Untouchables, by Randall Smith

OPINION: Bishop Barron Canonizes Judas Iscariot on Palm Sunday, by Chris Jackson

By Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator, March 30, 2026

From Bastogne to Iran, the case for just war — and a God who sometimes answers.

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