NCR Online: US bishops break further with Trump, this time on foreign policy

by Michael J O’Loughlin

With President Donald Trump ratcheting up economic threats against U.S. allies as part of his campaign to take Greenland, after the administration’s comments that military action is “always an option,” U.S. bishops are offering stark warnings against the administration’s recent foreign policy actions and threats, including a rare joint statement from three senior church leaders.

On Monday, Jan. 19, three Catholic cardinals — Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey — amplified an address given Jan. 9 by Pope Leo XIV to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps.

“We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy,” said the cardinals, each of whom were staunch allies of Pope Francis and were present at the conclave that elected  Leo. “We seek a foreign policy that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world, especially through economic assistance.”

Link to full article: https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-break-further-trump-time-foreign-policy

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