00:05:52.000But until that is the case, you know, the Catholic Church are talking about peace without the proper foundations.
00:05:58.000It's going to be like, is this from the Psalms?
00:06:00.000It's like the pelican on the rooftop squawking away all by itself, you know.
00:06:05.000Anyway, just give me your response to what I just said, if you wouldn't mind on that.
00:06:11.000And then I'll read a quote from this thing and then we'll cut over to Jenny.
00:06:16.000What he's what he's doing is he's scolding people who are actually being virtuous and they're fighting to fight as a soldier on the battlefield and offer your life for your country is a very, very high virtuous thing.
00:06:32.000And from the from the pope himself and not just him, but the political leaders who try to fight on behalf of what's right, on behalf of what's just the pope for him, for him to say these things all the time, this pacifism, which is a heresy, is scolding people for actually being virtuous and undermining virtue.
00:06:52.000And when you undermine virtue from Rome itself, you're creating a planet of people who are cowards.
00:06:59.000You know, there's you know, he there was nobody hurt in this attack on Iran.
00:07:05.000And there was that, you know, there was it was a very limited and they were evacuated at first.
00:07:12.000But he's, you know, he's talking about mothers and children as if he as if Trump and, you know, generally, you know, hinting that perhaps Trump has hurt children.
00:07:23.000And that's sort of in a way that's kind of a blood libel, actually, under the circumstances.
00:07:27.200What he did here may somehow be leading to peace through strength, like they say.
00:07:33.360These things are all possible under just war teaching in the church.
00:07:36.860Look, as people who follow me on Ghetto will know, I've been incredibly right from the first moment against both the Israeli bombarding of Iran, but also the U.S. bombarding of Iran.
00:08:11.480But from a religious perspective, specifically a Christian perspective.
00:08:16.180And again, this thought comes to me as I hear you're speaking, Frank, that.
00:08:23.260About you say about pacifism being a heresy.
00:08:25.840Look, is there a parallel here between the Orthodox Jews in Israel who refuse to be called up to fight and refuse to some extent to recognize the foundation, the foundation of the secular state of Israel?
00:08:43.180Because they say it wasn't founded by the promised Messiah, which from a Jewish perspective is coherent.
00:08:48.640Coherent, I didn't say it was correct.
00:08:53.560Is there a parallel, do you think, between the Orthodox position there in refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the secular modern state?
00:09:04.120And Catholics saying that the Pope shouldn't be promoting peace unless it is a peace founded on Jesus Christ?
00:09:14.380Because both of these things are predicated on God and his promises, right?
00:09:21.900If you just wore teaching is, I think, critical to power.
00:09:27.780So if you're trying to support a valid government, whether it's that, you know, you don't like the secular state, so you're not going to support that, you don't consider that just.
00:09:36.780If Catholics constantly teach peace as if it were Catholic teaching, there wouldn't be, if they did that all the time, there wouldn't be a church in Europe.
00:09:46.580There would be no cathedrals anywhere.
00:09:48.940They're just handing power over to the enemy.
00:09:51.040So depending on whether or not, it's key, whether or not their cause is just, fighting battles is important.
00:12:13.560So, Blue Labour is a blue-collar wing group within the Labour Party.
00:12:22.600And as you know, and your audience probably knows, the UK Labour Party is very, almost entirely quite far left and progressive
00:12:31.040and has all but abandoned the British working class in a multitude of ways.
00:12:37.760So, I was surprised that a Labour MP voted in that way, only in that I was surprised that there are still vestiges
00:12:46.180of the old traditional working class, conservative social values ethos within the Labour Party.
00:12:55.780I was relieved to see that it hasn't completely gone extinct.
00:13:00.000Now, you know, the vote is not set in stone yet.
00:13:03.760It now has to go to the House of Lords.
00:13:05.460And there is still, I suppose, a chance of stopping it.
00:13:09.160But it seems to have very strong momentum in spite of very loud, very vocal concerns raised against it from sort of across the spectrum.
00:13:19.160I mean, here in Northern Ireland, all but one of our MPs voted against it, including the more traditional sort of staunch religious Protestant parties,
00:13:28.740the smaller ones and the larger ones, but also even the MP for Alliance, which is a very progressive party.
00:13:34.080So, I think people are voting on this along more personal lines than party lines.
00:13:39.960However, it's a very dark bill and it's likely to become law.
00:13:49.020When you were speaking a moment ago about Leo, Pope Leo and his banal platitudes, I think you called them about peace,
00:13:58.520it brought to mind what the Church of England's reaction to the assisted dying bill was.
00:14:04.360And that was to give out an incredibly bureaucratic and anodyne statement calling the bill unsafe, which, I mean, I honestly have to laugh.
00:14:17.620I mean, it's almost like a Monty Python skit that, you know, the Church of England, which is supposed to be the moral center of the United Kingdom
00:14:25.460and this historic institution, called a bill that would allow the government to off its own citizens unsafe.
00:14:34.400I mean, it almost seems like that's kind of the point.
00:14:38.260I don't mean to be glib, but it's almost like dark humor at this point.
00:14:42.160You know, a point, an observation to that, which I could have made when we were talking about the Leo's, Pope Leo's intervention on the war.
00:14:56.460It is as if both the Church of England and the Catholic Church these days, and not just these days, for decades,
00:15:03.480they will do absolutely anything to avoid talking about Jesus Christ in the public sphere.
00:15:09.940It doesn't matter what somersaults they have to do, what contortions they have to do.
00:15:15.820If they can come out with a pseudo-innocuous banal platitude, that was the expression, right, a banal platitude,
00:15:23.340if they can come out with just some meaningless word salad, right, to avoid having to actually refer to Jesus Christ, they will do that.