A Catholic cardinal ripped the White House on Sunday over its “gamification” of war, and other church leaders criticized the administration in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired before President Donald Trump’s not-so-holy words for Pope Leo XIV.
“We’re dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment,” said Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, of the White House’s pop culture clip-filled wartime hype content.
Cupich, Cardinal Robert McElroy and Cardinal Joseph Tobin — all considered progressive voices in the Catholic Church — sat down with “60 Minutes” correspondent Norah O’Donnell, where they criticized the administration’s approach to the war and its immigration policies.
The three knocked the administration’s foreign policy earlier this year, with Cupich particularly taking aim at the White House’s “deeply offensive” use of social media to promote the conflict last month.
He revived the argument in his interview with O’Donnell.
