Catholic worker Kathy Boylan, 82, has spoken of her horror that Pope Leo XIV chose to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican.

The Pope hosting Herzog

Herzog has been named by a UN Genocide Commission as guilty of inciting the genocide of Palestinians. Israel has murdered almost 700,000 people in Gaza, almost half a million of them children – and 380,000 under the age of five, according to expert analysis of Israeli military data published in peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet.

Boylan has been writing to bishops and protesting outside the Vatican embassy, for months, urging the leader of the Catholic Church to visit Gaza. His predecessor Francis was an outspoken critic of Israel’s mass murder and crimes against humanity and an advocate for the freedom and self-determination of the Palestinian people.

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