“Broglio is the head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services — the top military chaplain in the United States armed forces — and he has a strong conservative pedigree, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, a man so doctrinaire that people called him the Panzer Pope.

Catholic soldiers, he says, must do their duty but are morally obligated to refuse orders that are “clearly immoral.” He made it clear that Trump’s war fails to meet the criteria of a “just war” and that all Catholic service personnel are obligated to “do as little harm as possible and preserve innocent lives.”

Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of the United States.”