The Vice President also discussed using social media to respond to messages and criticisms from the Pope, bishops and other religious leaders.
Vice President JD Vance said he was surprised to hear Pope Francis’ criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration policy while speaking at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast held in Washington on February 28th.
Vance also said he believes that the Pope is someone who cares deeply about faith and the spiritual direction of Christians in the world.
“I always remember the Holy Father, as a great pastor, as a man who can speak truth and faith, in a very profound way in moments of great crisis,” Vance said. He recalls a sermon of hope that it was delivered at the height of the pandemic in March 2020 at St. Peter’s Square in the sky, and compared it to the gospel that Jesus calmed the sea after his horrific disciples woke him up during the storm.
Vance, the first Catholic convert to Vice President, asked fellow Catholics to say a prayer that he and his family had been praying for the Pope every day since they were admitted to the hospital.
Pope Francis criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and condemned a massive deportation.
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“It is often the act of deporting people who leave their land for reasons of extreme poverty, anxiety, exploitation, persecution or severe deterioration of the environment, undermining the dignity of many men and women, and all of their families, leaving them with certain states of vulnerability and vulnerability,” he said on Feb. 10.
Vance had argued that his administration’s immigration policy was consistent with his Catholic faith. “Old Amoris” cited “Old Amoris,” a centuries-old teaching that suggests justifying the needs and concerns of a stranger’s previous relative.
Pope Francis seemed to correct Vance’s understanding of his conception of letters.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interest that extends to some extent to other people or groups,” he wrote. “The true Ordo Amoris who must be promoted is something we discovered by meditating constantly in the parable of the “good Samaritan” – by meditating on love that builds open fraternity to all without exception. ”
Vance’s speech also came when the American Congress of Catholic Bishops seized the Trump administration To the court Million-dollar cutoffs in fundraising for US refugee programs.
The Vice President also discussed using social media to respond to messages and criticisms from the Pope, bishops and other religious leaders.
“Sometimes, the bishops don’t like what I say,” Vance said. “By the way, I’m sure there are times when it’s right and sometimes it’s wrong. My goal is not to sue when I’m right and when they’re wrong or vice versa. My goal is to clarify how I think about being a Christian in my public life.”
He said Vance believes Christians do not find themselves obsessed with social media controversies, including the Catholic Church, the clergy, or “the Holy Father himself.”
“I think we should honestly take a look at the book of grandparents who respect the clergy, but we were sought guidance, but never fought by all the words that came out of our mouths.”
Vance said that while clergy are key spiritual leaders with a two-,000-year-old duty to talk about the issues of the day, they now face social media challenges, and it is important for church clergy to recognize it as much as the congregations.
“In the age of social media, I think it’s our religious leaders responsible for realizing that people stick to words that fall on every word, even if that was not intended and that a particular declaration was not intended for consumption in the age of social media,” he said.
The Vice President’s speech touched on his conversion to faith and an emotional declaration that his 7-year-old son’s baptism was far more important than winning the election in November 2024.
He said the government’s doors are open to feedback from the country’s loyal people.
“I have made this commitment to you before God, and in front of all the television cameras that have returned there, we will always hear the stories of people of faith and people of conscience in the United States,” Vance said. “You have an open door to the Trump administration when you don’t agree with us.
“So use that opportunity to communicate with us not only when we get things right, but when we get things wrong.”
