{"id":113767,"date":"2026-04-04T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=113767"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:33:37","slug":"much-good-friday-little-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/franz-alt-en\/comments-interviews\/much-good-friday-little-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Good Friday \u2013 little Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The current state of the world offers much Good Friday<\/a>, but little Easter: much suffering, wars, mass death, injustice and environmental destruction, but little hope and confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What themes will Pope Leo XIV emphasise in his Easter message in this current situation?<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Depositphotos.com | m.iacobucci | Pope Leo XIV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This \u2018Pope of Peace\u2019 repeatedly takes a firm stand against the current warlords in Moscow and Washington. As early as Palm Sunday, the Pope sparked major debate in the US with his sermon<\/a>. \u2018Jesus,\u2019 the Pope said, is the \u2018King of Peace\u2019, who rejects all war without exception. Violence is not in keeping with the Christian faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, who calls himself the \u201cMinister of War\u201d, had said a prayer in which he asked for \u201coverwhelming force\u201d against America\u2019s enemies and that \u201cevery bullet may hit its target\u201d. A justification of mass murder in the name of God, which is in truth the greatest blasphemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Donald Trump said that he knew of \u201cno reconciliation\u201d and would \u201cbomb Iran back to the Stone Age\u201d. War is also glorified in Moscow, where the Russian Patriarch speaks of a \u201choly war\u201d and sees the warlord Putin as \u201ca gift from God\u201d. In these times of \u201ctoo much Good Friday\u201d, however, Pope Leo will, in his Easter message in 2026 in particular, praise a different God from the one to whom the current US administration and the Putin administration pray. The God of Jesus contradicts the God of vengeance and war of these governments. On this subject, Heribert Prantl in the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/a> (1 April 2026) writes: \u201cThis is an Easter-inspired realisation that brings joy and gives hope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his sermon on Palm Sunday, Pope Leo invoked a Jesus-centred image of God by quoting the prophet Isaiah: \u201cHowever much you pray, I do not hear it. Your hands are full of blood.\u201d The central message of Jesus of Nazareth was unconditional love: love for oneself, love for one\u2019s neighbour, love for those far away, love for God, even love for one\u2019s enemies. The Dalai Lama says the same thing in these words: \u201cI know of only one religion: a good human heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s world finally needs more Easter. Then everything will change.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Franz Alt 2026<\/a>\u00a0| \u00a0Translated with\u00a0www.DeepL.com\/Translator<\/a><\/p>\n

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