"Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East. …

The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity."

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"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post."

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"As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.'"

~ Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Catholic archdiocese of Chicago

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archchicago.org/en/statement/-…

Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience”

As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strik…

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"Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago excoriated the clip, pointing out that
a real war with real death and real suffering [is] being treated like it's a video game … It's sickening.'”

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