{"id":104249,"date":"2026-10-13T06:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=104249"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:18:46","slug":"catholics-in-us-army-must-not-participate-in-firing-squad-prominent-archbishop-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/catholics-in-us-army-must-not-participate-in-firing-squad-prominent-archbishop-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholics in US Army must not participate in firing squad, prominent archbishop says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Catholics serving in the US Army should \u200bnot participate in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is planning to livestream in December, a prominent US archbishop said on Monday.<\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<p>Broglio said he presided at the funeral \u200cof one \u200cof Hasan\u2019s victims, and lamented the shooting. But the \u200bOhio-born \u200carchbishop asked \u2060whether the \u200bUS \u2060wanted to \u201cimitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,\u201d Broglio said.<\/p>\n<p>US Army regulations do allow for soldiers to request religious exemptions or accommodations, and the Army has yet to say how it intends to select members of the firing squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Catholics serving in the US Army should \u200bnot participate in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is planning to livestream in December, a prominent US archbishop said on Monday. In an unusually strongly worded statement, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the spiritual care of Catholic members of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104262,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104249\/revisions\/104262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}