During a worship service, Pete Hegseth shared a prayer he received from the chief planner of a rescue mission for two Air Force crew members shot down over Iran.
Hegseth’s prayer began, “The path of the downed aviator is surrounded by the wrongdoings of the selfish and the oppression of evil men.”
He continued, “Blessed is the one who, in the spirit of camaraderie and duty, guides the lost through the darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the protector of lost souls.”
He concluded with a powerful message, “And I will unleash great vengeance and furious anger on those who attempt to harm my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I deliver my vengeance, amen.”
Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, commented on the prayer, noting its resemblance to a famous line from the movie Pulp Fiction.
“Nevertheless, both the CSAR prayer and the Pulp Fiction dialogue draw inspiration from Ezekiel 25:17, as Secretary Hegseth mentioned during the service,” Parnell explained.
“Anyone saying the Secretary misquoted Ezekiel 25:17 is peddling fake news and ignorant of reality.”
Jackson’s character utters the verse before gunning down a small-time criminal who owed his gangster boss money.
But Hegseth’s prayer changed “the LORD” in the Bible so it was instead about the unit involved in the rescue.
He has also made the extraordinary rare move of attacking the pope after he called for peace in the Middle East.
“In the same way that it’s important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it’s very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology,” Vance said.
“If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth.”
Today the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior member of clergy in the Anglican church, issued a statement in support of the Catholic pontiff.
“I stand with my brother in Christ, his holiness Pope Leo XIV, in his courageous call for a kingdom of peace,” Archbishop Sarah Mullally said.
“As innocent people are killed and displaced, families torn apart and futures destroyed, the human cost of war is incalculable.”
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