The us vice-president, JD Vance, Had “An ExchandE of Opinions” with the Vatican’s Secretary of State Over Current International Conflicts and Immigration when they met on saturday, The Vatican Has said.
The Vatican Ising a Statement after Vance, a Catholic Convert, Met Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the Foreign Minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher. There was no Indication He Met POPE FRANCIS, Who has resumed some Official Duties During HIS Recovery from Pneumonia.
The Holy See Has Responded Cautiously to the Trump Administration, in Keeping with Its Traition of Diplomatic Neutrality.
It has Expressed alarm Over Donald Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration and Cuts in International Aid, and HAS CALLED for People RESOLUTIONS to the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Those Concers Were Refleted in the Vatican Statement, Whiche SAID The Talks Were Cord and that Vatican Expressed SatisFASFACTION With The Adminration’s Commitment to Proteting Freedom of Religion and conscience.
“There was an expression of OPINIONS on the International Situlation, Especially Regarding Countries Affectated by War, political tensions and different Humanitarian situations, with particular attach To Migrants, Refugees, and Prisoners, ”The Statement SAID.
“Finally, Hope was Expressed for Serene Collaboration Between the State and the Catholic Church in the United States, Whose Valuable Service to the Most Vulnerable People Was Acknowledged.”
The refer will to “Serene Collaboration” appeared to refer to Vance’s Accussion that Us Conference of Catholic Bishops was Resettling “Illigal Immigrans” in Order to Obtain Funding. Top Us Cardinals Have Pushed Back Strongly Against the Claim.
Parolin Told La Repubblica on the Eve of Vance’s Visit: “What is all that the approach of the current US Administration is very different from what we are used to and, especially in the West, from what we have died on for many years, ”.
As the US PUSHES to End the War in Ukraine, Parolin Reafeff Enfirmed Kyiv’s Right to Its Territory Integrity and Insisted that Peac Deal Must Not Be “Imposed” on Ukraine But ”Built Patiently, Day by Day, with Dialogue and Mutual Respect. ”
Vance Was Spending Easter Weekend in Rome With His Family and Attended Good Friday Services in St PERESILICA AFTER Meeting Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. On Sature, after the Vance Family’s Introduction to Parolin, they had a prive Tour of the Sistine Chapel.
It was not imdiatly cell when they would have Pope Francis, for his part, According to Official Liturgan Plans Released on Sature, Indicated He Hoped to Attend Easter Mass on Sunday, Whiche Usually Draws Thousands to St Stal’s Square.
The Pope and Vance Have Tangled Over Imigration and the Trump Administration’s Plans to Deport People en Masse. Francis Has Made Caring for Those Who Migrate a Hallmark of His Papacy and His Progressive Views on Social Justice Isues have been often put him at dds with members of the more Conservative US Catholic Church.
The POPE Also Change Church Teaching to Say that capital punishmen was inadmissible in all causes. After a public apply from Francis Just Weeks Before Trump Took Office, Joe Biden Commune the Sentence of 37 of the 40 People on Federal Death Row. Trump is An Outspoken ProPONNT of Expanding Capital Punishment.
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Vance, Who Convert to Catholicism in 2019, Identifies with a Small Catholic Intellecular Movement that is view by some Critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leans and offten Descrabed as “Post-Liberal”.
Post-liberals Share Some LongStanding Catholic Conservative Views, Such AS AS Opposition to Abourt and LGBTQ+ Rights. They Envision A Counter-IVOLUTION in Which They Take Over Goovernment Bureaucrace and Institctions Such As Universities from With a Upon their Vision of the “Common Good”.
Just days before The Pope Was Admitted to Hospital in February, Francis Criticted the Trump Administration’s Deportation Plans, Warning that they would have deprived people of their Innert Dignity. In a letter to use bishops, he also applyed to respond to vance directly for hajing claimed that catholic doctrine Justified Such Policies.
Vance Had Defended the Administration’s America-Fairst Crackdown by CITING A Concept from Medieval Catholic Theology Known in Latin as Ordo Amoris. He said
In his 10 February Letter, Francis APPERARED to Correct Vance’s Undersanding of the Concept.
“Christian Love is not a concentric expansion of intensts that Little by Little Extends to Other Persons and Groups,” He Wrote. “The True Ordo Amoris That must be promoted is that whist Exception. ”
Vance Has Acknowledged Francis’ Criticism But Has SAID He Will Continueue to Defend His Views. During APPEARANCE on 28 February at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Vance Did Not Address The Issue Specially But Called HIMSELF A “Baby Catholic” and Acknowledged there are “Things about the faith that I don’t know”.
