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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVance: Vatican "should stick to the church and let the president stick to DICTATING AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY."
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
JD Vance advises the Vatican to stay out of US politics
JD Vance advises the Vatican to stay out of US politics
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-13T22:30:15.397Z
moonscape
(5,770 posts)Follow your own advice!
Irish_Dem
(81,676 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,036 posts)Thanks JD! Your hypocrisy is priceless!
Lifeafter70
(1,095 posts)I know I know I took it out of context.
But it works for me.
tanyev
(49,372 posts)🤨
Iggo
(49,960 posts)JBTaurus83
(1,509 posts)Policy, ignorant douche.
Chasstev365
(7,901 posts)3catwoman3
(29,525 posts)ColoringFool
(789 posts)Chasstev365
(7,901 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,281 posts)JBTaurus83
(1,509 posts)He will do anything to become the nominee, and I cant see how remaining a Catholic is going to be feasible for him.
Deuxcents
(27,157 posts)Ocelot II
(130,762 posts)The president's job is not to dictate policy. The president's job, per the Constitution, is to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" (Article II, Section 3). Those laws arise from the people via their Article I representatives. And if the president has started a war because he felt like it and innocent people are getting killed, the Pope certainly can, and should, use his voice as (supposedly) God's messenger to speak out against the violence and the killing. God isn't cool with war in general, never mind what Pete Kegbreath says.
DFW
(60,305 posts)The clergy in general, and Catholics in particular, should keep their mouths shut, right?
Except when
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regnaD kciN
(27,668 posts)BlueNProud
(1,108 posts)Johonny
(26,304 posts)Happy about it, so Vance is going to have to eat the shit he crapped.
ananda
(35,267 posts)Cathoic in name only.
efhmc
(16,778 posts)ananda
(35,267 posts)But Vance really is a so-called Catholic.
Lifeafter70
(1,095 posts)Don't remember seeing him at Mass on Easter Sunday.
efhmc
(16,778 posts)waterwatcher123
(517 posts)Blue Owl
(59,254 posts)Kingofalldems
(40,322 posts)Raven123
(7,852 posts)Funny, JD thought it was ok for him (JD) to explain St Augustine
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/02/05/jd-vance-ordo-amoris-augustine-249848/
Cha
(319,414 posts)the little mouthpiece Cockroach telling Pope Leo the XIV what to do.
spanone
(141,768 posts)Skittles
(172,038 posts)when the Pope comments on WAR I think he IS commenting on MORALITY
Renew Deal
(85,251 posts)Vance knew he screwed that one up. Also, threatening to destroy a civilization is well within the Popes scope.
3catwoman3
(29,525 posts)Renew Deal
(85,251 posts)With all of the religious justifications for the war and Old Testament quotes to support lethality.
Keep religion out of foreign policy and maybe religion will have a smaller role.
That said, the ending civilization comments are a war crime and my understanding is that they may also be a sin.
MW67
(192 posts)Trying to tell the Pope to stay in his lane, how very rich, the laughing stock of the world leadership
purr-rat beauty
(1,283 posts)...a scion of the Anti-Christ than he is a son of God.
sop
(18,817 posts)
The Pope should excommunicate him for heresy.
Sequoia
(12,762 posts)And remember what happened after he forced a visit with the last Pope. Despicable phony.
malaise
(296,705 posts)Hmmmmmmmmm!
Eugene
(67,147 posts)An unlawful war that is disrupting the entire world is everybody's business.
And Shady, crimes done in Christ's name are morality issues.