Pro-Trump archbishop blindsides president as he urges troops to refuse Greenland invasion

One of the most far-right Catholic archbishops in the entire country just came out against President Donald Trump's threats to invade Greenland — and urged devout troops to refuse to follow any orders to do so.

Christopher Hale, a former Tennessee congressional candidate and Catholic outreach adviser for former President Barack Obama, analyzed this turn of events in his "The Letters from Leo" Substack on Tuesday.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the archdiocese for the U.S. military, is no one's idea of a Trump opponent. He has backed the right-wing crusade against COVID vaccine mandates in the armed forces, supported Trump's ban on transgender individuals from military service, and even told servicemembers that the Affordable Care Act undermines the freedoms for which they fought.

However, Hale wrote, "Speaking in a BBC interview this past weekend ... Broglio addressed President Donald Trump’s increasingly explicit threats to seize Greenland by force. Broglio’s judgment was unambiguous. Such an operation, he said, could not satisfy the Church’s moral criteria for the use of force. More pointedly, he added that Catholic military personnel would not be morally bound to carry out an order to invade a friendly nation."

“It does not seem really reasonable,” said Broglio, for the U.S. to invade territory of Denmark, an ally that has stood by America in the NATO alliance. Furthermore, he said, if such an invasion happens, Catholic troops could find themselves compelled to engage in actions they find “morally questionable,” and could refuse such orders.

This comes shortly after a group of Democratic lawmakers with a military background came together in a video reminding servicemembers they have a duty to refuse illegal orders — which led to Trump and his allies hitting the roof and issuing legal threats against those lawmakers, chiefly Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ).