{"id":87371,"date":"2026-10-13T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87371"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:17:16","slug":"archbishop-catholics-cant-participate-in-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/archbishop-catholics-cant-participate-in-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop: Catholics Can&#8217;t Participate In Firing Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Detroit News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u00a0Catholics serving in the US Army should not participate in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/10\/08\/hegseth-wants-fort-hood-shooters-execution-by-firing-squad-to-be-public\/92159670007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">planning to livestream in December,<\/a> a prominent US archbishop said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In an unusually strongly worded statement, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the spiritual care of Catholic members of the US armed forces, raised a series of objections to the unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree. Broglio said he presided at the funeral of one of Hasan&#8217;s victims, and lamented the shooting. But the Ohio-born archbishop asked whether the US wanted to &#8220;imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Detroit News: \u00a0Catholics serving in the US Army should not participate in the firing squad execution of Fort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87372,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87371\/revisions\/87372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}