The EWTN News portal reports on a gathering styled the “Catholic Military Conference,” organized by the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, held in Chantilly, Virginia, from November 9–11, 2026. The event featured the conciliar “archbishop” Timothy Broglio, lay theologians Joseph Capizzi and Matthew Bunson, and retired Lieutenant General James Dubik, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The speakers discussed just war theory, emphasizing the “negative consequences of any war,” the duty of political leaders to meet every criterion before launching conflict, and the need to avoid escalation with Iran. “Archbishop” Broglio urged dialogue with Tehran and insisted civilian harm “should be avoided at all cost.” The conference exemplifies the conciliar sect’s subservience to the secular war machine, baptizing imperial aggression with a veneer of moral theology while ignoring the Kingship of Christ and the supernatural end of man.
Legitimation of the Secular War Machine by the Neo-Church
The very existence of an “Archdiocese for the Military Services” is a monstrous anomaly, a canonical fiction erected by the usurpers to serve as chaplain to the American imperium. This structure has no precedent in the Corpus Iuris Canonici of the true Church; it is a creature of the Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes mentality, which sought to reconcile the Church with the world. The conference, hosted by this pseudo-jurisdiction, functions not as a tribunal of divine justice but as a theological rubber stamp for the Pentagon. The presence of a retired general who holds a doctorate in philosophy and teaches at Georgetown University—a citadel of Modernism—alongside “theologians” from Notre Dame and EWTN, forms a closed circuit of conciliar approval for the projection of American military power. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” This conference builds on those destroyed foundations.
Reduction of Just War to Humanitarian Calculus
The article reveals a total evacuation of the supernatural from the doctrine of just war. The speakers cite the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)—a document of the conciliar revolution—rather than the Roman Catechism of Trent or the teachings of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas in their integral rigor. The criteria are reduced to a utilitarian checklist: “grave evil,” “proportionality,” “last resort,” “probability of success.” Nowhere is mentioned the glory of God, the defense of the Faith, or the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ. General Dubik’s statement that war “damages the soul of the individual, the relationships, the communities” betrays a purely psychological, therapeutic anthropology. He speaks of the “soul” not as an immortal substance destined for eternity, but as a fragile psyche traumatized by violence. This is curia novit (the new care) of the neo-church: not the salvation of souls, but the management of trauma.
The Language of “Dialogue” and “Dignity” as Modernist Ciphers
“everything should be done to encourage dialogue between Iran and the U.S., with a goal toward peace… War is always the last possible option… the dignity of that person must be a priority”
The rhetoric of “dialogue,” “de-escalation,” and “human dignity” is the liturgy of the religion of man. “Archbishop” Broglio’s insistence that civilian infrastructure “support the civilian population” and that harm “should be avoided at all cost” reveals a naturalistic pacifism incompatible with the Catholic doctrine of the two swords. The true Church teaches that the temporal power bears the sword ad coercendum malos (to coerce the wicked) and that the spiritual power directs it to the common good of the Civitas Dei. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Civitas Dei for the civitas terrena, can only offer the language of the United Nations. The reference to President Trump’s threats against Iran—”hit them really hard”—exposes the reality: the neo-church blesses the geopolitical maneuvers of a Masonic republic, offering pastoral cover for a war driven by oil, hegemony, and the interests of the synagogue of Satan.
Symptomatic Collaboration with the Powers of This World
This conference is a symptom of the systemic apostasy diagnosed by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The Modernist seeks to “reconcile the Church with modern civilization” (Syllabus, Error 80). The “Catholic Military Conference” is the realization of that error: a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican providing spiritual anesthesia for the soldiers of the New World Order. The participation of EWTN—a media arm of the conciliar establishment founded by the Franciscan modernist Mother Angelica—and the citation of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” as authoritative, demonstrate the total capture of the visible structures by the enemies of Christ the King. The faithful Catholic, looking for the Regnum Christi, finds only a concilium belli (council of war) serving Caesar.
Silence on the Only True Peace: Pax Christi in Regno Christi
The gravest accusation is the total silence on the supernatural remedy. Not a word on the necessity of the Social Kingship of Christ, instituted by Pius XI in the very encyclical Quas Primas cited above. Not a word on the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith as the sole foundation of lasting peace. Not a word on the Fatima message—rejected by true Tradition as a Masonic operation—nor on the true solution: the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart by a true Pope in union with the bishops of the world. The conference speaks of “peace” as the absence of conflict, pax Romana enforced by drones and sanctions, not Pax Christi established by the Cross. As Pius XI warned: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” This harmony is impossible without the Author of Harmony.
Conclusion: A Conference of the Antichurch for the Antichrist
The “Catholic Military Conference” is a theater of the absurd. It gathers men who have lost the Faith to discuss the morality of killing in wars waged by a Masonic republic for anti-Christian ends. It uses the vocabulary of St. Thomas to justify the works of the devil. The integral Catholic rejects this entire edifice. There is no “just war” for the conciliar sect, because there is no justice without the Just One, Jesus Christ. The only just war is the bellum spirituale against the world, the flesh, and the devil, fought under the banner of the true King. Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis (There is no peace, saith the Lord, for the wicked – Isa 48:22). This conference is an abomination in the sight of God.
Source:
Theologians, retired commander reflect on just war at Catholic Military Conference (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.11.2026