{"id":2432871,"date":"2025-05-09T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-reacts-to-selection-of-american-pope-who-has-recently-criticized-him\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:44:03","slug":"jd-vance-reacts-to-selection-of-american-pope-who-has-recently-criticized-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-reacts-to-selection-of-american-pope-who-has-recently-criticized-him\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Reacts to Selection of American Pope Who Has Recently Criticized Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjd-vance-reacts-to-selection-of-american-pope-who-has-recently-criticized-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2432871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reflects on the author&#8217;s pride in the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, due to the grace shown by Vice President J.D. Vance in congratulating him despite the pope&#8217;s past criticisms of Vance and President Donald Trump. Vance&#8217;s high-road approach is contrasted with the pontiff&#8217;s socially progressive stance, which has sparked discussions on immigration and morality, especially regarding the pope&#8217;s past comments on love and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">open borders<\/a>.The author acknowledges their own complex relationship with Catholicism while expressing admiration for the Church&#8217;s values. The commentary underscores the broader dialogue about the intersection of faith, politics, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-bans-gop-account-allows-inflammatory-dnc-ads\/\" title=\"Facebook bans GOP account, allows inflammatory DNC ads\">social issues<\/a> in contemporary society.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Having grown up Catholic, gone to Catholic school, and attended Catholic mass as recently as October, I feel proud today.<\/p>\n<p>My pride (the good kind, properly distinguished from self-admiration) stems not from Thursday&rsquo;s selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-cardinals-elect-first-ever-american-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a> as the first-ever American pope but from the magnanimity exhibited by a much greater man than the erstwhile Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost: Vice President J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, Vance ignored the new pope&rsquo;s recent criticism toward him and President Donald Trump &mdash; not to mention a long history of cringeworthy wokeness &mdash; by taking the high road and congratulating the pontiff.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I&rsquo;m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-hammers-ilhan-omar-genocidal-language-white-men-diatribe-resurfaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election! I&rsquo;m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1920550545061810261?\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In short, Vance chose true liberality and humanity. That, among other things, makes the vice president a better man than me.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of Pope Leo XIV had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >social media users scrambling<\/a> to uncover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/newly-elected-american-pope-taken-multiple-shots-trump-administration-recent-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prevost&rsquo;s X posts<\/a>. To those of us who have come to expect the worst of woke liberal clerics, those posts did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, last month the new pope reposted a post critical of the Trump administration&rsquo;s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The innocent &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/brutal-video-marylanders-thrilled-maryland-man-deported-dems-will-lose-even-minorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Man<\/a>&rdquo; of liberals&rsquo; imaginations, Garcia actually was an illegal immigrant who has faced very credible allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/heartbreaking-audio-garcias-wife-describing-brutal-abuse-suffered-dems-maryland-man-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wife-beating<\/a>, not to mention connections to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bodycam-maryland-mans-suspected-human-trafficking-stop-finally-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human smuggling<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dhs-reveals-disturbing-new-discovery-kilmar-abrego-garcias-past-country-safer-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vicious foreign gang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, of course, will never trouble the pontiff behind Vatican walls.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in February, Prevost reposted a story about Vance, criticizing the vice president for asserting that we have a duty to love our families above strangers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn&rsquo;t ask us to rank our love for others,&rdquo; Prevost wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>So open borders means &ldquo;love,&rdquo; according to the new pope. From behind the safety of Vatican walls, that kind of assertion might strike the reader as hypocritical &mdash; to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Prevost also reposted some woke drivel about George Floyd and &ldquo;racism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the new pope also has strong and admirable pro-life sensibilities. But that hardly distinguishes him from someone like Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, another pro-life elitist who never endures the consequences of her judicial opinions.<\/p>\n<p>In the interest of full disclosure, I should acknowledge that in October I walked out of my Catholic church the moment the priest began lecturing the congregation about anti-immigrant rhetoric. In that case he had the much-publicized Ohio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/haitian-immigrants-springfield-ohio-looking-way-trump-win-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haitians<\/a> in mind.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, my own family has deep connections to the Catholic church. A beloved great aunt, who passed away at 95 in January, spent 80 years of her life as a nun. No one ever more consistently reflected the spirit of Jesus in the way she lived.<\/p>\n<p>This commentary, therefore, has nothing to do with Catholics or Catholicism. 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This pride\u2014genuine and distinct from self-admiration\u2014comes not from the election of Pope Leo XIV as the first American pope but rather from the generosity shown by a far greater individual: Vice President J.D. Vance. On Thursday, Vance took to social media platform X to congratulate the new pope despite previous criticisms directed at him and former President Donald Trump, demonstrating grace by choosing to rise above it all. He expressed his congratulations with a message wishing Leo XIV success in leading the Church and blessings upon him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Vance-v-Pope.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[54864,50410,7375,32082,38972],"class_list":["post-2432871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-american-pope","tag-controversy-2","tag-criticism","tag-jd-vance","tag-political-reaction"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Vance-v-Pope.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432876,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432871\/revisions\/2432876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}