Overview
- Cardinals Blase Cupich (Chicago), Robert McElroy (Washington) and Joseph Tobin (Newark) issued a jointly signed statement calling for a genuinely moral foreign policy.
- They declared war unacceptable for narrow national interests and said military force should be used only as a last resort in extreme situations.
- The prelates cited the U.S. operation in Venezuela that removed Nicolás Maduro, threats to acquire Greenland, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and cuts to foreign aid as examples fueling their concerns.
- The statement urges prioritizing human dignity, the right to life and religious liberty, with expanded economic assistance over a force‑first approach.
- Reporters described the move as an unusual escalation by senior U.S. Catholic leaders; the statement did not name President Donald Trump, and the White House did not immediately respond.