In a passionate speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for the First Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. “Deus vult!” the cry went up from the assembled crowd. “God wills it!” And Christendom responded.
That was a different era. Today the West is no longer Christendom but a secular civilization in decline and undergoing an accelerating capitulation to Islamic imperialism. Instead of a Pope Urban II rallying the Church Militant in defense of the faith, we are saddled with a pacifist Pope Leo XIV calling for “interfaith dialogue” and “communion” between Christianity and the Islamic ideology that is, both historically and currently, an existential enemy of Western civilization.
