16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” 17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” 18 “Which ones?” he inquired. Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,’[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]” 20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?” 21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. 23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” 25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” 26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” 27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?” 28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. Why are we told that parasites, who do no work for themselves, are some noble "job creators"? Jesus states plainly here how difficult it is for him to enter Heaven. But the real issue is not that he is rich. The real issue is that the WAY he BECOMES rich forces him to break The Lord's commandments. The WAY he BECOMES rich is through parasitism. Through using his existing position to take what others have worked for. Through using his existing position to exploit them, and profit from their labor, so he would not have to work himself. We get told in a million different ways that those who do this are special and good, but the plain truth is that they are parasites, who will be, according to Jesus, last in Heaven, judged by those who sit at His side. Interestingly, this whole thing surprises Jesus's followers. They had been told, much like we are, that the rich are there because they worked hard and are noble. The revolutionary message of Jesus, however, shines the light of truth on these lies. They haven't worked hard. WE work hard. They simply use their existing position to profit from OUR work. If you are a Christian, I really urge you to think long and hard about Jesus's actual message. Are you following His teachings? Or are you allowing your ego to blind you to the fact that you may have been ideologically manipulated? I see that happen far too often these days. And if anyone really thinks I'm wrong here, I'm happy to discuss this stuff at length.

May the Lord help you to become a society in which everyone, each according to their respective responsibilities, works ever more fully to serve the common good rather than private interests, bridging the gap between the privileged and the disadvantaged. May there be greater room for freedom, and may the dignity of the human person always be safeguarded.

By the way, Sean Hannity publicly left the Catholic Church years ago.

Breaking: Pope explains his visit to the mosque was not to pretend Catholicism and Islam are the same but simply to promote the rejection of religious violence in Algeria.

Pope Leo has cast off / rendered impossible the brand of “conservative” Catholicism that since the 1970s has sought to make the faith safe for GOP belligerence and market fundamentalism. My 3,000-word essay, if you’re into such things. unherd.com/2026/04/the-pope-…

Americans Thrilled Trump Is Focusing On The Kitchen Table Issues They Voted On Like Bombing Out Iran's Largest Bridge

🚨🇻🇦 BREAKING — The Pope is Infallible.

As an Orthodox Christian, I am very grateful to the Pope for speaking the truth of the Gospel. I wish other Christian leaders had the courage to do the same.

An unspeakably evil threat. Every soldier has the duty to disobey orders to carry this out, every government official has the duty to do whatever is in his power to stop it, every churchmen has the duty to speak out against it, every citizen to resist in any moral way possible.

Everyone who thought Trump was an antiwar candidate was a complete unmitigated idiot, and should reflect on how not to be an idiot next time. noahpinion.blog/p/i-told-you…

The time has come for the military to refuse to cooperate with orders like this. Catholics will have to take the lead. The Christian Zionists are incapable of rational behavior.

Loving your country should never be synonymous with loving your government.

Josef Stalin was more humane than Trump, and certainly never engaged in anything like this rhetoric. Stalin.

Where else can you read the great Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton on the Passion? Only, only at UnHerd. unherd.com/2026/04/on-love-a…

American government officials who claim to care so much about Christianity are lying to you. They are supporting Israel’s terrorism against the Christian residents of southern Lebanon, whose water infrastructure has been attacked by Israel. Watch this report:

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing. On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace. Not escalating war that is hurting people. This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil.

Not in God’s name: How Pope Leo is pushing back at divine justification of war. @CNN analysis edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/m…

On the day we remember Christ conquering Hell, Trump threatens to “reign” hell on an entire country

2000 years ago or so, the Devil got amazingly faked out. Jesus was cornered. Didn't have a chance. Satan was chomping at the bit, expected him to go down fighting and be epically defeated. Instead Jesus chose to take the fall and saved all mankind in the process. Wow.