Apropos
From the July AD 2002
Our Lady of the Rosary
Parish Bulletin
Selections from the
Scripture, the Fathers,
Doctors, Popes, and other great spiritual writers appropriate to the Church in
our time.
"There is one matter on which we are most specially anxious, and that is the fate of the Holy Places, on account of the special dignity and importance for which they are so venerated by every Christian. Who can ever tell the full story of all the efforts of Our predecessors to free them from the dominion of infidels, the heroic deeds and the blood shed by the Christians of the West through the centuries? And now that, amid the rejoicing of all good men, they have finally returned into the hands of the Christians, Our anxiety is most keen as to the decisions which the Peace Conference at Paris is soon to take concerning them. For surely it would be a terrible grief for Us and for all the Christian faithful if infidels were placed in a privileged and prominent position; much more if those most holy sanctuaries of the Christian religion were given into the charge of non-Christians."1
--- Pope Benedict XV, 1919
Extinction of Christianity in Jerusalem (c. A.D. 2020 ?) NOTES: 
1. Benedict XV, 1919. Quoted in The
Remnant, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., "Zionism, the Church, and
America," April 30, 2002, p. 1.
2. Data from <www.ffhl.org> the extrapolation and chart are
ours.
