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华盛顿专电 全美美军天主教神职人员负责人对美国对伊朗战争的真实性提出质疑，称尽管存在“核武威胁”，但“在威胁真正显现前就采取行动应对，是一种过度补偿”。
领导美国军中天主教教区的大主教蒂莫西·布罗格洛在接受哥伦比亚广播公司记者埃德·奥基夫的采访时表示，这场战争很可能不符合正义战争理论的标准。该采访将于周日在《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目中播出。
圣奥古斯丁阐释的正义战争理论核心原则之一是，战争只能作为“为实现和平”的最后手段，不得先发制人。
“耶稣基督传递的无疑是和平的讯息，而且我认为战争永远只能是最后不得已的选择，”布罗格洛说道。他补充称，特朗普政府“可能掌握了让他们认为这是唯一选择的信息。我不会对此作出评判，因为我确实不知情。但我的确认为，很难将这场战争，你懂的，视为得到上帝认可之事。”
当被奥基夫问及国防部长皮特·赫格斯西的相关言论时——赫格斯西曾援引耶稣的名义，并呼吁为参与对伊战争的美军官兵祈祷，布罗格洛表示，将这场战争描述为耶稣会认可的行为“有点问题”。
“我会支持利奥教皇的立场，他一直敦促通过谈判解决问题，”布罗格洛说道。
首位美国籍教皇利奥十四世曾敦促特朗普总统及其他领导人寻求缓解中东地区紧张局势的办法，为对伊战争找到一条“退路”。
在个人层面，布罗格洛建议天主教官兵“尽可能减少伤害，努力保护无辜平民的生命”。
布罗格洛指出，由于美国军方关于出于良心拒服兵役的规定，“你不能反对某一场特定的战争或特定的军事行动，你只能表明‘我反对战争’。”他表示，一名官兵的行为方式“取决于你在指挥链中的位置”。
“问题可能在于，你知道吗，将军们或海军上将们是否有空间，比如说，‘我们能否换个角度看待这个问题？’”布罗格洛说道。“但我也和其中一些人聊过，他们也陷入了同样的两难境地。”
布罗格洛表示，他和其他神职人员正投入更多时间处理“道德创伤”相关问题，也就是官兵们可能需要为自己执行的暴力行动寻求宽恕的担忧。
“即便你服从的是合法命令，但你不得不杀人，这会在你的内心或灵魂上留下印记，”他说。“我们一直在努力建立相关机制，为身处这种处境的人提供帮助，帮助他们从这些经历中恢复过来。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-u-s-military-archbishop-timothy-broglio-on-iran/
Military archbishop says “it’s hard” to see Iran war “as something that would be sponsored by the Lord”
April 3, 2026 / 7:00 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The leader of all U.S. military Catholic chaplains questioned the veracity of America’s war in Iran, saying that while there “was a threat with nuclear arms, it’s compensating for a threat before the threat is actually realized.”
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, told CBS’ Ed O’Keefe in an interview that will broadcast Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the war is likely not justified under the Just War Theory.
One of the tenets of Just War Theory, as articulated by St. Augustine, is that war should only be a last resort “in order that peace may be obtained” and not preemptive.
“The Lord Jesus certainly brought a message of peace and also, I think war is always a last resort,” Broglio said. He added that the Trump administration “may have information that led them to think that that was the only choice they had. I’m not making a judgment about that, because I really don’t know. But I do think that it’s hard to cast this war, you know, as something that would be sponsored by the Lord.”
Asked by O’Keefe about rhetoric from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has invoked Jesus’ name and called for prayers for service members in relation to the war with Iran, Broglio said casting the war as something that Jesus would justify is “a little bit problematic.”
“I would line myself up with Pope Leo, who has been urging for negotiation,” Broglio said.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has urged President Trump and other leaders to find ways to reduce the violence in the Middle East and find an “off-ramp” in the war with Iran.
At the individual level, Broglio counseled Catholic service members to “do as little harm as you can, and to try and preserve innocent lives.”
Broglio said that because of the way conscientious objection is set up in the U.S. military, “you cannot object to a specific war or a specific action, you can only object to, ‘I’m opposed to war.’” He said how a service member conducts themselves “depends on where you are in the chain of command.”
“The question might be, would, you know, would generals or admirals have space to perhaps, say, ‘can we look at this a different way?’” Broglio said. “But having spoken to some of them too, they’re also in the same dilemma.”
Broglio said he and his fellow chaplains are spending more time working on questions of “moral injury,” or concerns among service members that they may need to seek forgiveness for the violence they carry out.
“Even if you obey a legitimate command, but you have to kill someone, that’s going to leave some traces in, you know, in your heart or on your soul,” he said. “We’ve tried to provide structures and help to people in that situation, to try and help them heal from those situations.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-u-s-military-archbishop-timothy-broglio-on-iran/
