Breaking News: Israel Shuts Down Christ's Resurrection Site. Bishop Strickland & Tucker Respond.

TL;DR

Bishop Strickland and Tucker Carlson condemn Israel's Palm Sunday closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as part of broader moral opposition to civilian destruction.

Key Points

• 1.The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed by Israeli authorities on Palm Sunday. A planned live-stream service with Cardinal Pizzaballa and three others inside was banned; the church had reportedly never been closed during either World War.
• 2.Strickland doubts the 'safety reasons' justification. He notes no synagogues were fully closed under the same conditions, and questions what legal authority Israel holds over a church it does not own in East Jerusalem.
• 3.The closure is framed as targeting Christianity specifically. Tucker argues the most threatening act to power is four clergy peacefully live-streaming in an empty church, suggesting the motive is suppression of truth rather than security.
• 4.Both men condemn large-scale civilian destruction as never morally justifiable. Strickland repeats this as a foundational 'anchor of truth' throughout, applying it to Gaza, Iran, and any conflict where innocents are targeted.
• 5.Trump's threat to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure — including desalination plants and the energy grid — is called immoral. Strickland states directly that threatening civilian infrastructure violates the same principle, regardless of political allegiance.
• 6.Strickland outlines Catholic just war theory with four criteria. A justified war must respond to a real (not perceived) threat, be proportional, protect innocents, and have a reasonable expectation of producing greater peace; he argues the current conflict fails on all points.
• 7.Christian leaders using the Old Testament to justify violence are challenged. Strickland argues Jesus's New Covenant supersedes Old Testament violence — citing 'eye for an eye' — and that co-opting Christianity for war is offensive to Christ himself.
• 8.Kari Lake Bowler's expulsion from the president's religious liberty task force is discussed. Tucker says she was removed for acknowledging Gazan civilian deaths and refusing to endorse political Zionism; Strickland called it removal for speaking truth and publicly defended her.
• 9.Strickland's post defending Bowler received nearly one million engagements on X. He describes the response as 'overwhelming' and mostly positive, interpreting it as evidence of a worldwide famine for truth.
• 10.Both Tucker and Strickland compare their own cancellations as parallel truth-telling battles. Strickland was removed from his diocese; Tucker was fired from Fox News — both frame their silencing as backfiring and amplifying their voices.
• 11.Strickland expresses hope through an approved 1570s Marian apparition, 'Our Lady of Good Success' in Quito, Ecuador. He says Mary prophesied that 20th and 21st century chaos would come to light, and frames current global corruption exposure as God's purifying work.