Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio

President Donald Trump on Oct. 15 called off Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

Catholic leaders across the nation are continuing to express their shock and concern over the Trump administration’s plans to livestream a military execution.

“I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,” Archbishop Broglio said.

The Red Mass is offered each year to invoke God’s blessings on those responsible for the administration of justice as well as on all public officials.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio in his Sept. 11 homily in Washington called for “reconciliation, dialogue, and rebuilding a sense of our common humanity.”

The memorial Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, held May 17 to remember Catholic war dead, is distinctly nonpartisan and generally unchanging.

Archbishop Broglio is concerned the U.S. military action in Iran was “compensating for a threat” before the threat “is actually realized.”

(OSV News) — President Donald Trump ruled out the use of force to acquire Greenland in a Jan. 21 speech to the World Economic Forum, but he said the U.S. would …

A hypothetical use of military force against Greenland by the U.S. would amount to an attack on a NATO ally under the terms of the alliance.

“No one can ever be ordered to commit an immoral act, and even those suspected of committing a crime are entitled to due process under the law.”