Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., very much in sync with Pope Leo’s peace initiative, on April 11 made an unequivocal condemnation of the Iran war as unjust and immoral. He gave his homily at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, in a peace vigil accompanying the one earlier in the day in Rome by the Pope. The full text is available here. We provide two particularly notable quotes here:
“We are called to be peacemakers within this nation which we love so deeply, refusing to allow the cancer of polarization to swallow up the noblest dreams of our founders in this very year in which we celebrate our 250th birthday as a country.”
