Stand up for Peace!

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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland Wednesday, President Trump backed away from threats to take over Greenland with military force. Pressure from voters, Congress, and allies do make a difference! Meanwhile, the threat of further violence continues to hang over Venezuela, as well as Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere. Congress can do more to assert its constitutional responsibility and stop the Administration from imposing its will on the world with threats and violence.

Our faith calls us to speak up for peace and nonviolence. Three U.S. Cardinals — Archbishop McElroy of Washington, Archbishop Cupich of Chicago, and Archbishop Tobin of Newark — released a joint statement this week calling for “the establishment of a genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation.” In it, they repeat a warning from Pope Leo XIV’s January 9 address to Vatican diplomats: “In our time, the weakness of multilateralism is a particular cause for concern… War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading… Peace is no longer sought as a gift and desirable good in itself… Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion.”

The U.S. cardinals continue, “We seek to build a truly just and lasting peace, that peace which Jesus proclaimed in the Gospel. We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy. We seek a foreign policy that respects and advances the right to human life, religious liberty, and the enhancement of human dignity throughout the world, especially through economic assistance.”

Write to your Members of Congress today and urge them to support any checks on the Administration’s power to wage war, and to pursue just peace and a genuinely moral foreign policy.

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