Pope vs Postliberals on War

A visible clash between Pope Leo XIV and postliberal Catholic critics (and sympathetic U.S. politicians) is exposing a deeper split in conservative Catholicism: one side ties religious authority to universal moral claims (opposition to war), the other privileges national loyalties and a politics of cultural identity. That dispute is shifting who counts as the moral arbiter for conservative foreign‑policy and domestic coalitions. — If postliberal Catholics break from neoconservative patriotism, conservative coalitions, voting blocs, and foreign‑policy rhetoric could realign around different moral authorities and priorities.