U.S. Military Chaplaincy Purged of Catholic Identity During Holy Week

Summary: The EWTN News portal reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains, Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., during Holy Week, alongside two other generals, without providing a cause. This follows Hegseth’s stated mission to reform the chaplaincy, including scrapping an “Army Spiritual Fitness Guide” he deemed secular humanist. Concurrently, the Pentagon failed to schedule a Catholic Good Friday service. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Military Archdiocese, had previously supported Hegseth’s critique of the guide, advocating for a return to “religious services, religious instruction, and advising.” The article presents these events as administrative reforms within a wartime context. This is not reform but the final, systematic purging of the last vestiges of supernatural Catholic chaplaincy service within the U.S. military, replacing it with a naturalistic, nondenominational “spiritual fitness” program under the authority of the conciliar sect.