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 Archbishop For US Military Says Iran War Is Unjust Under Catholic Teaching

byDave DeCamp| April 5, 2026 at 1:41 pm ET |Iran

The Catholic Archbishop for the US Military Services has said the US-Israeli war against Iran is unjust, according to Catholic teaching, as Catholic leaders in the US, Rome, and the Middle East continue to criticize the conflict.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio made the comments in an interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that was recorded on Friday and aired on Sunday. He was asked if the conflict could be justified under the Catholic Church’s Just War Theory, which traces its roots to St. Augustine of Hippo, who died in the fifth century.

“I would think under the Just War Theory, it is not [just],” Broglio said. He added that there was a “threat with nuclear arms” but that the war was “compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized,” though there was no evidence either before the June 2025 war or the current conflict that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons.

Just War Theory is codified in the latest Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), which calls on all Catholics to “work for the avoidance of war” and teaches that war is justified only in self-defense. It states that governments cannot be “denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed,” and outlines four strict conditions that must be met:

The Catechism adds that the “power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition,” and since World War I, popes have decried the destructive power of modern weapons.

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