Vice President JD Vance shared it, even though he “surprised him” Pope Francis Criticism of the Immigration Policy of Trump’s Administration, he believes Pontif “is basically a person who cares for a flock of Christians.”
While he spoke on a national Catholic breakfast in Washington on Friday, DC, Vance – a convert to Catholicism – said that he did not agree with Francis and some Catholic bishops on certain views, he and his children pray for the Pope on a daily basis.
Francis, 88, is He is suffering currently from pneumonia and infection in the lungs and is treated at the Gemelli Roman Hospital.
Earlier this month, Francis betrayed a great reprimand From the plans of Trump’s administration for mass deportations of migrants, emphasizing that strong removal of people are simply due to their immigration status, denies their innate dignity and “will end badly”.
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Vice President JD Vance speaks at a national Catholic breakfast in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025.
Francis wrote a letter to US bishops, which seemed to criticize Vance’s religious argument in defense of the deportation policy.
Nevertheless, Vance shared a message of unity between Catholics and Christians, saying, “I do not think it is good for us as Christians to constantly fight each other for every single controversy in the Church.”
“Sometimes we should allow these things to play a little and try to live our faith the best we can, under the dictates of our faith and under the dictates of our spiritual leaders, but do not hold them according to the standards of influence on social media because they are not,” he added. “My goal is not a lawsuit when I’m right and when they are wrong or vice versa. My goal is to articulate the way I think about being a Christian in public life when you also have religious leaders in public life who have spiritual duty to talk about the issues of the day.”
The Vice President even led the participants in the Pope prayer.
Pope Francis waved from his Popemobile after a weekly prayer of Angelas, on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
“I believe the pope is basically a person who cares for a flock of Christians under his leadership, and he is a man who cares for the spiritual direction of faith,” Vance said. “Every day I and my children have spoken a prayer for the Holy Father and we pray for his health, and we pray for his comfort as he deals with what seems to be a rather serious health crisis.”
Shared a significant memory of his Pope’s message of courage and hope in the earliest days Covid-19 pandemicwhich began just a few weeks after his daughter’s birth.
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“I will always remember the Holy Father, whether it breaks through this illness – and I certainly hope he will do it – I will always remember the Holy Father in March 2020, at a time of incredible stress for the real world … The Holy Father who stood on an empty St. Peter, holding the Eucharist above his head and giving a sermon to be consistent, in uncertain, some time. [and] It still remains meaningful today. “
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Concluding, Vance said: “If the Holy Father can hear us, I hope he knows that there are thousands of faithful Catholics in this room and millions of faithful Catholics in this country praying for him as he attracted his special storm.”
