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What Pope Leo’s Anti-War Stand Means for Catholic Troops

April 14, 2026 | Blog, COs in the Military, News

We appear to be in uncharted territory as His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, leader of the largest branch of the world’s largest religion, has repeatedly and clearly labeled Operation Epic Fury an immoral war. He has called on its participants to “lay down your weapons,” a...

Steve Englehart: Conscience’s Storyteller By Chris Lombardi

August 7, 2025 | Blog, COs in the Military, The Reporter, Voices of Conscientious Objectors

When I first learned that CCW’s upcoming event would include Steve Englehart, I was astonished. The Marvel icon? The creator of Doctor Strange, the guy who brought us Captain America, the Falcon and Starlord? That guy? But in many ways, I wasn’t surprised that...

Marines Implement New Standards for Conscientious Objectors

September 9, 2013 | Blog, COs in the Military, News

By Bill Galvin. First published in On Watch by the Military Law Task Force (nlgmltf.org) In a new version of Marine Corps Order (MCO) 1306.16, issued in June of this year, the Department of the Navy, Marine Corps Headquarters, heightened the evidentiary standard a...