Top US Catholic leaders condemn Washington’s foreign policy
Posted on: Jan 20, 2026 23:54 IST | Posted by: Rt
terzetto of the to the highest degree senior Catholic clerics in the US feature criticized in a articulate financial statement what they described as Washington’s polarizing and partisan foreign policy.
America has reduced the building of just peace to a set of “destructive policies,” Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, said on Monday.
The recent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Washington’s push to acquire Greenland, and the ongoing Ukraine conflict “have raised basic questions about the use of military force and the meaning of peace,” the archbishops said, adding that the moral foundations of US foreign policy are facing the toughest questions since the end of the Cold War.
“The building of just and sustainable peace… is being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies,” the statement said, pointing to a speech by Pope Leo XIV delivered to the foreign ambassadors to the Vatican earlier this month.
The pontiff called “the weakness of multilateralism” a particular source of concern and stated that a diplomacy that promotes dialogue had been replaced with “a diplomacy based on force, by either individuals or groups of allies.” He warned that “a zeal for war is spreading.”
The three archbishops urged Washington to embrace a foreign policy “that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity.”
The clerics also renounced “war as an instrument for narrow national interests” and called on the US to pursue a “just and lasting peace” instead.
The cardinals didn’t mention US President Donald Trump specifically, but their statement came as his administration doubled down on its intention to acquire Greenland by threatening NATO nations that opposed the idea with sanctions and tariffs. The capture of the Venezuelan president in a US military operation earlier this month also drew widespread condemnation around the world, with some nations, including Russia, warning that it undermined the world order or could even lead to its collapse.
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