"In an interview with the Catholic Standard this week, McElroy said: 'The criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.'”

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"Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is 'not morally legitimate', going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war."

~ Anna Betts

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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Washington cardinal says US war on Iran ‘not morally legitimate’

Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails ‘criterion of right intention’

^{Anna Betts (The Guardian)}