US EditionJD Vance urges Pope Leo XIV to focus on moral issues rather than U.S. public policy
Vance said the Vatican should avoid U.S. policy debates as he defended the Iran strikes and invoked World War II to justify military action.
- On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance rebuked Pope Leo XIV at a Turning Point USA rally in Georgia, stating the pontiff should be "careful" when discussing theology and foreign policy.
- Tensions escalated after Leo argued that disciples of Christ should not "wield the sword," a stance Vance claimed ignores the "more than 1,000-year tradition of Just War theory."
- Questioning the pontiff's pacifism, Vance asked if God was on the side of Americans who liberated France from the Nazis and freed those who survived the Holocaust during World War II.
- President Donald Trump previously blasted the pontiff as "WEAK on crime" and "terrible for Foreign Policy" amid disputes over the war in Iran, though Leo stated he has "no fear" of the administration.
- Trump's recent social media posts, including an AI-generated image of himself, caused upheaval among American Catholic clergy, who defended the pontiff and criticized the president's attacks as inappropriate.
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The US Vice-President rejects Pope Leo XIV's criticism of the war against Iran and declares that the pontiff's statements were not based on theological truth.
The U.S. Vice President, JD Vance, mentioned Tuesday World War II to defend the U.S. bombing of Iran against the criticisms of Pope Leo XIV, which continued the Trump administration's dispute with the Catholic Church and reflected the difficulties the White House has had in justifying an unpopular war, noted The New York Times. Trump attacked the Pope on Sunday in a social media post calling the first U.S.-born pontiff “weak in the face of crime…
JD Vance warns the Pope not to cross the line on war and then crosses every line by lecturing on faith
The administration’s back-and-forth with Pope Leo XIV continues. This time, Vice President JD Vance had to bumble through heckling from the crowd at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, while trying to explain which side he thinks God takes in various American wars. As economies flounder both within the borders of the United States and beyond, the Donald Trump administration has been struggling to defend a highly unpopular war globally.…
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