'JD Vance is wrong,' new Pope Leo XIV once posted on social media [View all]
Not exactly a maga fan, pretty sure trumpy is not pleased.....
(The Advocate) Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost has criticized the extreme policies of the Republican administration. Prior to stepping onto the Vatican balcony Thursday as the first American to lead the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — was quietly signaling dissent from some of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance's policies, particularly on immigration.
"JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others," the soon-to-be pope's post read. The op-ed argued that such a hierarchy distorts scripture and is incompatible with Jesus’ teachings, which expand love beyond borders and bloodlines.
Another of those posts, dated April 14, was a repost of condemnation by Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar, who called out Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for laughing during an Oval Office meeting about the deportation of a U.S. resident. The tweet linked to Menjivar’s influential essay in the Catholic Standard, where he described the U.S. government’s immigration crackdown as a campaign of “shock and awe,” likened it to Christ’s Passion, and warned Catholics not to remain silent in the face of suffering. “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” Menjivar wrote, invoking Saint Óscar Romero and directly challenging Catholics who approve of or ignore the human toll of deportations.
https://www.advocate.com/news/pope-leo-trump-vance-criticism
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