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Editorial: Trump's threats force Catholics to decide if they will be complicit Opinion Editorial Activists protest near the White House in Washington April 7. Earlier in the day President Donald Trump had doubled down on threats to annihilate Iran. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) by NCR Editorial Staff April 10, 2026 They will go down as three of the most reckless and defining days in the history of the U.S. presid ency, an anti-Triduum that began on Easter Sunday morning. Announcing to the world that we were willing to annihilate a civilization, Donald Trump led our descent into corporate evil. Those days and those words, fashioning an America we had not previously known, may also hold the potential for some long-term consequences that Trump could never have anticipated. Those days and words have brought us to yet another point in which we confront who we are as Americans and, more important for the Catholic community, who we are as believers. Some indications of the answers to those que...