‘Manifestly unreasonable’: Catholic cardinal blocked from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Jesus Christ’s tomb by Israeli police

(Official White House photo by Andrea Hanks)

Israeli police prevented a Catholic Cardinal from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the church traditionally believed to have been built over the burial tomb of Jesus Christ, adding a new dynamic to the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, was traveling with the official guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, when they “were stopped en route, while...