Washington cardinal says US war on Iran ‘not morally legitimate’
Mar 10, 2026
Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails ‘criterion of right intention’Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxCardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is “not moral
ly legitimate”, going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war.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.” Continue reading... ...read more read less