(Washington) American Cardinal Blase Cupich, close to Pope Leo XIV, described a White House video montage mixing extracts from Hollywood films with real images of strikes on Iran as “sickening” and “terrifying”.
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“A real war, with real deaths and real suffering, treated like a video game, it’s sickening,” the cardinal said on Saturday, in a publication on the website of the diocese of Chicago, of which he is archbishop.
In this 42-second video published Friday on X, and subtitled “American-style justice,” heroic Hollywood scenes alternate with images broadcast by the American army showing real strikes on various targets.
This is a “terrifying representation” when “more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children” were killed by American and Israeli missiles, the prelate was indignant.
“Our government views the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it were new content to scroll through while waiting for our turn in line at a supermarket,” the American cardinal added.
“We lose our humanity when we are captivated by the destructive power of our armed forces,” he warned.
“I know the American people are better than that,” he wrote.
The Diocese of Chicago is one of the largest in the United States.
