Jack Posobiec

Well, Steve, there's a massive diplomatic row that has broken out over the blocking of Cardinal Pizzabala today.

There, he is the Primarch of Jerusalem, of the Holy Land, and he has been someone who has consistently stood for the rights of Christians in the Holy Land during the entirety of his tenure there in Jerusalem.

And today, this morning, we had already been told

that the traditional procession on Palm Sunday, where the Cardinal would hold a procession through the gate to the Old City and then down to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, that had already been called off because of security concerns due to the ongoing war with

Iran and various, you know, various munitions that have landed in parts of the Holy Land.

And for folks who haven't been to the old, it's very, very small area, very tight, very clustered area.

Also, of course, if you have these large processions, if you have large public masses, this does become a target potential target for for terrorists.

And so he had complied and has always complied with security regulations, but was attempting to visit the Church of Holy Sepulchre this morning, the church where the tomb of Christ is held, as well as the stone of function, the rock of Golgotha, the place on earth where the crucifixion took place, where Easter Sunday took place, where all of it took place.

It's right there, the resurrection, the death.

burial and resurrection of Christ all took place within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

That's what sepulchre means.

And this is what the Crusades were fought over.

And so he was blocked while attempting to hold what they say was a private mass.

He was going in with about four others, and Israeli police blocked him, and they were enforcing this edict, even though he was planning only to go himself as the leader of

and bring some others, some support staff and perhaps some servers, because he was attempting to do a live stream for the millions of faithful that wanted to tune in to be able to see, because of course today is Palm Sunday and on the international stage, this has already become a diplomatic scandal with

The Vatican has now summoned the Israeli ambassador.

The foreign minister of Italy has summoned the Israeli ambassador.

You've seen the prime minister of Italy, Giorgio Maloney, has come out and condemned this.

President Macron of France has condemned this.

And, of course, President Noworodzki of Poland, who just spoke at CPAC yesterday, massive crowd there, massive reception at CPAC yesterday.