Vatican – after leaving the Marines and starting higher education, Vice President JD Vance withdrew into atheism – fights, Would end up wroteWith the feelings of the “irrelevant side” in his faith and with “desire for social acceptance among American elites”.
Vance, which later turned into Catholicism, this weekend did his second trip in Vatican in less than a month. In the first visit to Vance, he met with Pope Francis on Easter, hours before he died. On Sunday, Vance led the American delegation on the inaugural mass of the first American Pope born, Leo XIV.
Both Pontiff – Francis during his paption, Leo in his previous service as Cardinal Robert Francis Previdence – offered tied up, but easily deciphered by the President Donald Trump and Vance’s “First” WorldView. Vance, a bit of the innocent for someone that makes the hearing easier, decided in decent criticism in the Sidestep. But the circumstances of the last few weeks have put an unexpected light on their religion, and strengthening its status as one of the world’s highest Catholics in the political office.
On Sunday, the vice president scored a premiere seat in the first row to the right of the DNA, near the delegation from Italy and Peru, where the Pope is a naturalized citizen and served as Bishop and Archbishop.
In his Hotilla, he is delivered in Italian about “too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudices, fear of the difference and economic paradigm that exploits the poorest”, according to the English language.
Vance and other lady of Usha Vance briefly greeted the Pope before leaving the Vatican Sunday.
“Of course, the American Pope – the United States is very proud of him, very enthusiastic with him, and surely our prayer,” Vance is opening a trillateral meeting in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melonia and the President of the European Commission Ursula von Der Leyen.
The White House is eager to see a visit to this weekend a historical sense.
“Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope. Vice President Vance is the first Catholic converter that serves as vice president,” Vance’s office emphasized during the journey announcement.
Vance is the second Catholic to serve as the vice president, after Joe Biden, who continued to become the second Catholic president, after John F. Kennedy. Biden grew up in the Catholic Church, while Vance came to it as an adult. Association of Vancia in Rome and in the Vatican this weekend was Father Henry StephanThe priest who baptized him in 2019. years.
After landing in Rome at the sunset, in the evening, Vance’s motor flowered the first time the Basilica of St. Mary, where the other ladies paid him his tribute to Francis’s grave.
In February, Francis sent a letter to US bishops It was He looked a lot of them as Trump immigration policies in general and Vance’s justification in particular. Vance answered trying to separate any tensions. Speaking National Catholic Prayer Breakfast That same month, Vance said Francis criticism surprised him, the Pope was “basically a person who cares for a flock of Christians under his leadership.”
The remark came after Vance, who was known for its abstract with an online presence, complained about its audience that the increase in social media was unhealthy for religious discourse. (Vance justified Trump’s recent post containing the AI image that shows the president as a pope as a joke.)
“We did not call like Christians to obsess over all the controversy of social media that implies the Catholic church,” Vance said. “No matter whether the bishop includes a holy or bighute, to sincerely take on the books of our grandparents, who were respected by leaders, but they did not endure or fought every word and entered the social media. I don’t think that’s good.”
Vance scored a similar tone this month after Leo’s choice as a pope draws attention to the stories he shared on social media as a cardinal that was critical to Trump and Vances. Although wrestling with Leo politics in Interview with conservative commentary Hugh HewittVance offered a nuanced response and said he prefers “not to play the politicization of the Pope game”.
However, for all Vance’s social media mane, he telegraphed the year before his vice-presidency that the Papition of the authority that he does not like to cross.
In Essay 2020. Years He wrote about his conversion in the lamp, Catholic magazine, reminded Vances to face the “Consolative Catholic writer about his critique of Pope”. Vance claimed that “too many American Catholics failed to show appropriate respect for papacy, treating the Pope as a political person who will criticize or commit themselves towards their widgets.”
Vance’s conversion is a less wasted part of his past. In addition to the lamp essay and Thoughts he shared with a conservative printer friend Who attended his baptism, away from the public audience, Vance talked quite sparingly his spiritual journey.
In the Catholic Prayer breakfast in February, he stated his cut marriage with us, who is Hindu, and how they raised their three children Catholic as they enabled them to decide on baptism. He said his most exciting moment last November – the moon elected vice president – was when his 7-year-old son decided to baptize.
“One of the things I try to remind myself as a conversion is that there is a lot that I don’t know,” Vance said that day. “When I was a child, we used to be called to the Baby Christian faith. And I’m a baby, that there are things about faith I don’t know what I can talk about, because I won’t understand.”
2025-05-18 14:17:00
