Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican
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Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.

Summary

Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with J.D. Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement.

The statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation… with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”

Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked the president’s mass deportation effort, calling it a “disgrace” and a “grave sin.”

The Pope corrected a Catholic concept Vance had invoked to defend the administration’s deportations, ordo amoris (order of love). In a February letter, Francis pointedly explained, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Catholics make up only about 25% of the US population. US Americans also seem to have their own flavor of Christianity, where being nasty and cruel to your neighbor and killing everything you don’t like weirdly is part of their beliefs.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I don’t know about that. Christians, particularly the Catholic Church have a long history persecution. The Albigensian Crusade was against European Christian “Cathars”. When the Crusade to the “Holy Land” kicked off, the first thing they did was march through Germany murdering Jews. The Inquisition, the slaughter and enslavement of American natives, those were all Europeans.