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Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus

Pope Leo XIV says Christianity should not justify domination as he calls for dialogue and an end to violence after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in Iran “in the name of Jesus Christ,” the New York Times reports. Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, has a starkly different take on what should be done in Jesus’s name. In a homily during a Mass on Thursday morning before Easter, the pope said that the Christian mission has often been “distorted by a desire for domina…

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U.S. Defense Secretary Asks Citizens to Pray for War... Pope Rebuts, Saying It Is Not the Way of Jesus. As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged citizens to kneel and pray every day for victory in the Middle East war, Pope Leo XIV, the first American, directly refuted this. According to the New York Times and other sources on the 3rd

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Hegseth used religious rhetoric to defend war on a Christian moral foundation and suggested that all bombs are backed by the divine. More information: "Hypermasculin, violent and childish": the war rhetoric of Pete Hegseth, head of the Pentagon, raises criticism in the US

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette broke the news in Pittsburgh, United States on Friday, April 3, 2026.
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