Pope Leo the 14th just met with the president of Israel, Andrew Herzog,

and the internet is a buzz on the photos.

And this recalls our previous show from two days ago,

where we talked about the photo, the now infamous photo of Populia of the 14th, and James Martin,

the Jesuit, who was a very big advocate for the L and the Q's and the Bs and all those,

and the T's. And the problem with that is we had the T act of violence last week in a Catholic church at a Catholic Mass, and the optics are horrible.

And I was looking at this and also thinking back on the show that I just did on James Martin in reading comments from people.

And they're saying things like, oh, well, if you look at the picture with the president of Israel, and by the way, Netanyahu is the prime minister, this is the president, look at this, he's not smiling, he's frowning, but he is wearing the red Mosetta. So he's sending us a sign that he is, he bears both swords, he's over israel he has temporal power and he's not happy

so he's dressed like this and then some people say oh if you look at the image with james martin

pope leo he has a slight smile a mona lisa smile and so maybe he likes j James Martin, or maybe he's preparing his downfall.

And the whole thing, as I reflected on it, is kind of ridiculous. And Gavin Ashton, who I've been

on the show and he's been on my show, he's a former Anglican priest. I'm a former Anglican priest.

We're both Catholic now. He wrote a former Anglican priest. I'm a former Anglican priest. We're both Catholic now.

He wrote a really good article on his substack talking about this phenomenon of papal pictures.

And he kind of just cuts through everything. So I want to read parts of his reflections today and give you some of my own reflections on my own personal experience with photos

and people trying to interpret photos.

And then we're going to do live Q&A.

And just a reminder, as you can tell by the screen, I am surrounded by Christian Patriot

because we are in launch week.

And I'm telling you, ladies, you need to get a copy for your husband.

I've been tracking some of the clicks on emails and whatnot, mostly males buying the book,

which I find fascinating.

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