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WHAT I LOVE IN 2025…A POPE WHO PROTESTS IN DEEDS, AND WORDS. WITHOUT DEADLY FORCE WEAPONS, BULLYING, OR HATE SPEECH!
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[[ “JD Vance got a Vatican reality check Saturday as Pope Francis skipped their meeting - and sent his top deputy to lecture the vice president on compassion.
While Vance attended a Good Friday service with his family and met privately with Pope Francis later, the formal sit-down was handled by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who delivered the Pope's clear message: stop justifying cruelty with religion,
Trump's brutal deportation policies are so extreme, even the Pope is keeping his distance - and Vance is stuck defending the indefensible
The Vatican described an "exchange of opinions focused on war, humanitarian crises, and especially "migrants refugees, and prisoners."
That's diplomatic code for: stop throwing vulnerable people out of the country.
The White House, trying to clean it up, framed the visit as a warm conversation about shared faith and global peace a striking departure from the Vatican's pointed language.
Francis didn't name Vance in his February letter to U.S. bishops, but the criticism was unmistakable. He blasted mass deportations as a "grave sin" that violates the dignity of families and contradicts the teachings of Christ.
Vance - a Catholic convert - previously tried to defend Trump's policies using "ordo amoris," or…
