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Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus [View all]

Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus

April 3, 2026 at 6:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 183 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/03/hegseth-says-u-s-troops-are-fighting-for-jesus/


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 domination, entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
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