The Church’s Surrender of Moral Authority to Secular Powers
The National Catholic Register reports on a revealing division among prominent U.S. Catholic clergy regarding the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, exposing the catastrophic consequences of the post-conciliar Church’s abdication of its divine mandate to render moral judgment on the justice of wars. Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester declared that “it is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust,” while Father Gerald Murray of the Archdiocese of New York affirmed the war’s justice, and “Pope” Leo XIV criticized it and urged peace. This spectacle of confusion and capitulation demonstrates the utter theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect, which has abandoned the Church’s immutable teaching on the moral governance of nations and surrendered its prophetic voice to the prudential calculations of secular authorities.





