{"id":68616,"date":"2026-03-10T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/washington-cardinal-says-us-war-on-iran-not-morally-legitimate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:11","slug":"washington-cardinal-says-us-war-on-iran-not-morally-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/washington-cardinal-says-us-war-on-iran-not-morally-legitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington cardinal says US war on Iran \u2018not morally legitimate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails \u2018criterion of right intention\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israeli war with Iran<\/a> is \u201cnot morally legitimate\u201d, going further than the pope has done in his more moderate appeals for an end to the war.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/in-interview-cardinal-mcelroy-says-u-s-entry-into-war-with-iran-not-morally-legitimate-citing-catholic-just-war-teaching\">Catholic Standard<\/a> this week, McElroy said: \u201cThe criterion of just cause is not met because our country was not responding to an existing or imminent and objectively verifiable attack by Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/washington-cardinal-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails \u2018criterion of right intention\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Cardinal Robert W McElroy, the archbishop of Washington DC, has said that the US-Israeli war with Iran is \u201cnot morally legitimate\u201d, going further than &#8230; <a title=\"Washington cardinal says US war on Iran \u2018not morally legitimate\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/washington-cardinal-says-us-war-on-iran-not-morally-legitimate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington cardinal says US war on Iran \u2018not morally legitimate\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}