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.”

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    13 hours ago

    I’m sure a historian will chime in, but I seem to remember there was quite a lag before the Church spoke up against what was going on in WW II. Maybe you were saying that sarcastically? And I honestly don’t recall without looking it up.

    • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      11 hours ago

      There was some lag, but they came out in support of the nazi and fascist movements initially. Specifically the pope supported Mussolini for the first few years and he would not have achieved nearly the level of success he did with fascism had it not been for the churches support.