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Sighhhhhh. Listen, I'm surely a lapsed Catholic successful my ain right, but I didn't implicit complete 10 years of catechism AND galore years of abrogation Bible schoolhouse for JD "Baby Catholic" Vance to archer maine THE POPE, of each people, is incorrect connected his interpretation of the Bible.
Yes, that's right, folks. Baby Catholic Vance is backmost offering theological advice to the literal caput of the Catholic Church — the aforesaid Pope who precocious emphasized that "God’s bosom is with the humble” and not "the wicked, the arrogant, oregon the proud.”
OF ALL THINGS...YOU...WHO BECAME A CATHOLIC IN 2019...ARE LECTURING THE POPE ON HOW TO BE A CATHOLIC?
OK, fto maine calm down. He said each this astatine a Turning Point USA event, successful which helium filled successful for Erika Kirk.
Anyhoo, astatine the event, Vance pushed backmost connected a caller connection from the pope, who said that followers of Christ are "never connected the broadside of those who erstwhile wielded the sword and contiguous driblet bombs." The remark was wide interpreted arsenic a commentary connected the US and Israel's warfare with Iran.
God does not bless immoderate conflict. Anyone who is simply a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is ne'er connected the broadside of those who erstwhile wielded the sword and contiguous driblet bombs. Military enactment volition not make abstraction for state oregon times of #Peace, which comes lone from the patient…
— Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) April 10, 2026@Pontifex / Via Twitter: @Pontifex
"When the pope says that God is ne'er connected the broadside of those who wield the sword, determination is simply a 1,000-year-old — much than 1,000-year contented — of conscionable warfare theory. OK?" Vance proclaimed.
"Now we tin of people person disagreements astir whether this oregon that struggle is just, but I deliberation it is important — successful the aforesaid mode that its important for the Vice President of the United States to beryllium cautious erstwhile I speech astir matters of nationalist argumentation — I deliberation it's very, precise important for the pope to beryllium cautious erstwhile helium talks astir matters of theology," helium said.
HUH!? The pope...should beryllium careful...talking...about...THEOLOGY?
Vance was past heckled by a antheral successful the audience, presumably the aforesaid heckler who shouted "Jesus Christ does not enactment genocide!" astatine him earlier successful the conversation. "Hey, random dude screaming, I told you I'd respond to your point. I conscionable privation to respond to this question first," helium said to the heckler.
"I deliberation 1 of the issues present is that if you're going to opine connected matters of theology, you gotta marque definite it's anchored successful the truth," helium continued. "That's 1 of the things I effort to do, and it's surely thing I'd expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic oregon Protestant."
Yeah, helium fundamentally conscionable told THE POPE — the caput of the Catholic Church and successor to Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ himself — that helium didn't hold with his theological interpretations. I'm sorry, but who does this Baby Catholic deliberation helium is?!
Naturally, radical had A LOT of thoughts astir each this online:
JD Vance has been a Catholic for similar 2 seconds and he's already telling the Pope what to absorption connected and to beryllium much cautious erstwhile talking astir theology.
The arrogance of that man.
@covie_93 / Via Twitter: @covie_93
Truly singular however galore radical person told the Pope, successful immoderate mode oregon another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him connected the Bible, contempt their bladed acquisition connected theology. Or told him to enactment retired of US affairs, contempt him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.
— derek feline (@dieworkwear) April 15, 2026@dieworkwear / Via Twitter: @dieworkwear
The Pope, who’s spent his full big beingness studying religion, seemingly knows little astir it than JD Vance, who’s been Catholic for astir 5 minutes.
— Jamie Bonkiewicz (@JamieBonkiewicz) April 15, 2026@JamieBonkiewicz / Via Twitter: @JamieBonkiewicz
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