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Cardinals Urge Moral Foreign Policy, Critique Trump's Approach

1/19/2026

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Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago; Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of San Francisco; and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, issued a statement urging a genuinely moral foreign policy with military action as a last resort.
They criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to global affairs.
They cited Venezuela, Ukraine, and Greenland to illustrate a force-driven global order.

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Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago; Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of San Francisco; and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, issued a statement urging a genuinely moral foreign policy with military action as a last resort.
They criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to global affairs.
They cited Venezuela, Ukraine, and Greenland to illustrate a force-driven global order.