Pentagon’s Holy Week Blasphemy and the Naturalist Chaplaincy

[National Catholic Register] portal reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the U.S. Army’s “Chief of Chaplains,” Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., during Holy Week, alongside two other generals, as the U.S. engages in war with Iran. The reason for the removal is officially unstated. Concurrently, the Pentagon held Protestant services on Good Friday but provided no Catholic liturgy, citing the absence of its assigned priest. These actions occur within Hegseth’s declared reform of the military chaplaincy, which previously scrapped an “Army Spiritual Fitness Guide” for promoting “secular humanism.” Archbishop Timothy Broglio (validly ordained pre-1968) had supported scrapping the guide, condemning reductions of the chaplaincy to “social work or cheerleading.” The article presents these events as administrative and policy matters, utterly omitting the supernatural dimension of the chaplain’s office and the gravitas of Holy Week. This silence is not neutrality but a damning symptom of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, where the reign of Christ the King is systematically excluded from public life, replaced by a naturalistic, utilitarian approach to “spirituality.”