"The statement was unusual and marked the second time in as many months that members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy have asserted their voice against a Trump administration many believe isn't upholding the basic tenets of human dignity. In November, the entire U.S. conference of Catholic bishops condemned the administration's mass deportation of migrants and "vilification" of them in the public discourse."
"The three cardinals, who are prominent figures in the more progressive wing of the U.S. church, took as a starting point a major foreign policy address that Pope Leo XIV delivered Jan. 9 to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. The speech, delivered almost entirely in English, amounted to Leo's most substantial critique of U.S. foreign policy. History's first U.S.-born pope denounced how nations were using force to assert their dominion worldwide, "completely undermining" peace and the post-World War II international legal order."
Three U.S. Catholic cardinals urged the Trump administration to use a moral compass in foreign policy, warning that U.S. military action in Venezuela, threats to acquire Greenland and cuts in foreign aid risk causing vast suffering instead of promoting peace. Cardinals Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy and Joseph Tobin said the foreign policy debate lacked moral vision and was mired in polarization, partisanship and narrow economic and social interests. McElroy said most of the United States and the world are adrift morally in foreign policy but that the United States still has a tremendous global impact. U.S. bishops previously condemned mass deportations and vilification of migrants. The cardinals invoked Pope Leo XIV's Jan. 9 remarks denouncing the use of force and its undermining of peace and international law.
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