Cardinals’ Plea for “Moral” Policy Exposes Conciliar Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports on January 20, 2026, that U.S.-based “cardinals” Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin issued a joint statement urging the White House to adopt a foreign policy they deem “genuinely moral.” The “prelates” cited an address by antipope Leo XIV to diplomats, advocating military action as a “last resort” and emphasizing “human dignity,” “religious liberty,” and multilateralism amid crises in Venezuela and Greenland. They praised Leo XIV’s call to avoid war as a tool of “dominion” and claimed his words provide an “ethical compass” for U.S. policy. The statement frames peacebuilding through secular humanism while omitting the necessity of Christ’s social kingship.
Naturalistic Substitution of Christ’s Sovereignty
The “cardinals” reduce morality to anthropocentric platitudes, stating foreign policy must “respect human life, religious liberty, and human dignity.” This echoes the conciliar sect’s Gaudium et Spes (1965), which detached ethics from the regnum Christi (kingship of Christ). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns such naturalism, declaring: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§31). By omitting Christ’s authority over states, the “cardinals” advance the modernist heresy that “human dignity” exists independently of divine law—a thesis condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
False Peace Built on Relativism
Leo XIV’s claim that peace is sought through “weapons as a condition for asserting dominion” inverts Catholic doctrine. True peace flows only from submission to Christ’s reign, as Quas Primas teaches: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (§19). The “cardinals” replace this with a secular pax humana, reducing just-war principles to utilitarian “last resort” calculations. This distorts St. Augustine’s criteria, which require war to restore divine order, not merely balance “national interest with the common good”—a phrase implying moral equivalence between truth and error.
Omission of Supernatural Order
Nowhere do the “cardinals” mention the necessity of converting nations to the Catholic Faith, despite Pius IX’s condemnation of indifferentism: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). Their call to “safeguard human dignity” ignores that dignity derives from man’s supernatural end—to know, love, and serve God. Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei (1885) clarifies: “States cannot, without crime, behave as if God did not exist, nor reject the religion of God to adopt according to their pleasure.” By endorsing multilateralism divorced from evangelization, the “cardinals” validate the conciliar heresy of religious liberty denounced in Lamentabili Sane (1907) as “self-awareness of man’s relation to God” (Proposition 20).
False Shepherds Serving the Antichurch
Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin—appointed by antipopes—lack all jurisdiction, as St. Robert Bellarmine states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30). Their statement exemplifies the conciliar sect’s apostasy, treating the Church as a NGO promoting worldly “dialogue.” Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) condemns such modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth” (§13). The “cardinals” parrot Leo XIV’s call to reduce “polarization,” a code for silencing doctrinal certainty. As Pius IX warned: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57)—when such “progress” denies immutable truth.
The Silence That Condemns
The gravest error lies in what the “cardinals” omit: no warning that nations rejecting Christ’s reign face divine judgment (Ps 2:10-12), no call for America’s consecration to the Sacred Heart, no mention of Mary as Mediatrix. Their “peace” is a pagan mirage, for Pax Christi in Regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ) alone saves societies. The “diplomatic” language masks apostasy—confirming Pius XI’s warning that secularism produces “the entire human society shaken to its foundations” (Quas Primas, §18). Until the conciliar sect vanishes and Peter’s throne is filled by a true pope, such statements will only deepen the darkness.
Source:
U.S. cardinals urge White House to pursue ‘genuinely moral’ foreign policy (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026