Overview
- The Pentagon chapel, which a Friday email from Air Force leadership said would host a Protestant service with “No Catholic Mass,” was confirmed by a spokesperson to have no other service scheduled.
- The setup stood out in a military where roughly a quarter of service members identify as Catholic.
- HuffPost highlighted the lack of a Catholic observance and quoted an employee who said the message made Catholics feel unwelcome.
- Catholic voices countered that there is no Mass on Good Friday and noted that communion uses hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday.
- A War Department official told Fox News that Catholic Masses are held daily at the Pentagon and said services are open to all, while Mediaite tied the episode to scrutiny of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s evangelical ties.