The Pope Declares an Armed Pilgrimage

The crusades were not a holy war. That's not exactly what the pope or the church was proposing, but they were. Pope urban: "It is now the duty of christian fighting men to take up the cross and go out in an act of penitential warfare" So this seems to be basically the meat of what the pope said. Theh eastern christians are under attack. The holy sites are being desecrated,. And it is now theduty of christianFighting men to taking up the cross journey to jerusalem and retake jerusalem for christ.