American Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, has said the US war in Iran is “not morally legitimate”, adopting a stronger tone than that of Pope Leo XIV.
In an interview with the Catholic Standard, the magazine of the Diocese of Washington, the cardinal said the war did not meet the criterion for a “morally legitimate war” under Catholic teaching because United States had not responded to an “existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran”.
“As Pope Benedict declared categorically, Catholic teaching does not support preventative war, ie a war justified by speculation about events in the future,” he said in the interview published online Monday.
Nor should the war drag on, he said, “lurching from goal to goal and from strategy to strategy” given the US government’s aims in attacking Iran have been “absolutely unclear.”
“There is a logic to war that presses onward, escalating in its dimensions and timeline. Our country has fallen victim to this logic of war in the recent past, especially in the Middle East,” he said, warning of an “ongoing morass in Iran”.
(AFP)
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