"Our country's moral role in confronting evil around the world, sustaining the right to life and human dignity, and supporting religious liberty are all under examination, said a joint statement from Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy and Joseph Tobin, respectively the archbishops of Chicago, Washington DC and Newark, New Jersey. And the building of just and sustainable peace, so crucial to humanity's wellbeing now and in the future, is being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies, it added."
"Without naming Donald Trump, the statement on Monday continued: 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. It was the second time in two months that higher-ups in the US Catholic church with more than 50 million members asserted their belief that the president's administration had been failing to uphold basic human dignity."
"Meanwhile, in a 9 January speech at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV had expressed a concern over how a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force, by either individuals or groups of allies. War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading, Leo said in his speech, less than a week after the US military action in Venezuela and amid Trump's fix"
Three US Catholic cardinals criticized the administration's foreign policy, citing the push to obtain Greenland, recent military action in Venezuela, and cuts to humanitarian aid as risks to international relations and potential causes of widespread suffering. They warned that the nation's moral role in confronting evil, upholding the right to life and human dignity, and defending religious liberty is under scrutiny. The cardinals said efforts to build just and sustainable peace are being reduced to partisan categories that encourage polarization and destructive policies, and they called for foreign policy that advances human life, dignity, and economic assistance worldwide.
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