By William Jerry

U.S. Cardinals Urge White House To Pursue ‘Genuinely Moral’ Foreign Policy:

Three U.S.-based Catholic cardinals issued a joint statement urging a fundamental reexamination of American foreign policy, rejecting war as a tool for narrow national interests and calling for military action to be used only as a last resort in extreme circumstances. Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark framed their appeal within the moral vision articulated by Pope Leo XIV in his Jan. 9 address to the diplomatic corps.

The cardinals said recent global developments — including events in Venezuela, Ukraine, and discussion of U.S. intentions toward Greenland — have intensified debate over the moral foundations of U.S. engagement abroad. They argued that America’s traditional moral role in defending human life, dignity, and religious liberty is now under serious scrutiny. In their.