THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Fares Abraham) - The Real Meaning of the Holy Sepulcher Contretemps
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Foreign Affairs The Real Meaning of the Holy Sepulcher Contretemps Worldly power fears the man on the donkey. On Palm Sunday, Israeli police stopped Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa , the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Francesco Ielpo, the Custos of the Holy Land, on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The church called the decision “manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate,” noting that for the first time in centuries, its senior leaders were prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday at Christianity’s holiest shrine. Only after global outrage did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reverse the restriction.…Open