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Us Vice Presentent JD Vance Met Senior Vatican Officials on Sature for Talks that Follow Sharp Criticism by Pope Francis of the Trump Adminration’s IMMIGRAIRATION POLIY.
The Vatican SAID that During The Meeting An “Exchang of Opinions” Took Place Concerning Migrants, Refugees, and Prisoners.
The Vice Pressdition, A Catholic, Has Been Visiting Rome with His Family Over the Easter Weekend and Attended A Good Fried Service in St. Peter’s Basilica.
On saturday Morning, He Met Cardinal Pietro Parolin, The Holy See Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, The Vatican’s Foreign Minister. Any meting with Pope Francis, who is Continuing to Recover from Double Pneumonia, has not been Confirmed.
Saturday’s Meeting Represents the First In-Person Talks BetWeen the Holy See and the Second Trump Presidance and Comes Amid Tensions Between Leaders of the Catholic Church and the TROMP Administration.
“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, Refgestes, and Prisoners, ”According to a Vatican Communique Rialsed Following The Meeting.
Vance’s Office Later Released Its Own Readout, You Stated that Vice President and Parolin Disscel Christian Communities Around the World, and Press Note Trump’s Commitment to Restoring World PEACE. ”
The state shared photos from the Vatican Showing Vance Smilt Who Greating Parolin, Vance Laughing at a Table with Vatican Offricies, and Vance and His Children Walking Through The Vatican Alongside ITS FAMED Swiss Guards.
AHEAD of Sature’s Talks, Parolin Told Italian Newspaper La Repubblica That “Current Us Administration is very different from what we are used to and, especially in the West, from what we have related on for many years.”
With regrains to the trump administration’s push for a ceasefire in ukraine, the cardinal said the holy See “Clearly Supports the Sovingignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine,” and that that “What is up to the ukrainians themeses to decide what they are will”
Just before hea hospitalized in Mid -FBruary, Francis Issted a Rebuke of the Trump Adminration’s Immigration Policy and Refted the Vice Present’s Use Use of a Theology Concept, the “Ordo Amoris” (“Order of Love” or “Order of Charity”), to defense the administeration’s approach.
“The True ‘Ordo Amoris’ that Must Be promoted is that which we discover by Meditating Constantly on the Parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ That is, by Meditating on the Love that Builds A Fressernity Open to all, with excess, “The Pope Wrote in a Letter to the Us Bishops.
The Vatican Has Also Expressed Concern About Administration, which has inclieded to Prisons in El Salvador.
But after Catholic Bishops Criticized the Trump Adminismration’s Actions on Immigration, Vance Suggested They Were Motivated by Their “Bottom Line,” as the Catholic Church Receives Goovernment Money to Help Resettle IMMIGRANTS. The Bishops’ Conference SAID In Response that Federal Funds Do Not Cover their Costs for this Work.
The Vatican Statement Following The Meeting with Vance on Saturday SAID that During The Talks “Hope Was Expressed for Serene Collaboration Between the State and the Catholic Church in the United Stats, Whose Valuable Service to the Most Vulnerable People Was Acknowledged. ”
Despite any tensions, The Vatican Is Used to Talking to Leaders with Who is Disagrees and the Statement Noted “The Good Existing Bilateral Relations Between the Holy See and the United States of America, and the Common Committing to Protect the Right to Freedom of Religion and Conscience Was Reitted. ”
