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Dear friends — Today’s subscriber-only article marks a genuinely unexpected turn. Speaking to the BBC, Broglio went further than anyone anticipated: he said Catholic service members could, in good conscience, refuse an order to invade a friendly nation. What makes this moment extraordinary is not only the substance of Broglio’s warning, but the source. This is the same archbishop who until recently was reluctant to challenge Trump-era policies at all. Yet in just a few months, he has now issued three public rebukes of the administration — on religious freedom, on extrajudicial violence, and now on the prospect of unjust...

Border czar Tom Homan rebuked the Conference of Bishops on Friday for condemning mass deportation efforts in the United States led by the Trump administration. “The Catholic Church is wrong,” Homan told reporters at the White House. “I’m a lifelong Catholic, but I’m saying it not only as a border czar, but I’m also saying this as a Catholic,” he added. On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Bishops issued a statement rebuking the administration’s “indiscriminate” efforts to remove immigrants. “We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration...

Pope Leo XIV continues to make thinly veiled jibes against the Trump administration’s stance against illegal immigration.Speaking in front of thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo warned that migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.”Without singling out any country in particular, Leo said that Catholics should “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.”Leo explained that the church was living through a “new missionary age” that tasked its members with providing “hospitality and...