Hours earlier than he shuffled off this mortal coil, Pope Francis not-so-subtly criticized Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump’s remedy of immigrants and the weak.
Francis briefly met with Vance on the Vatican on Easter Sunday, the place the 2 exchanged fast pleasantries. However after the assembly, Francis—who was frail after battling double pneumonia—had an archbishop learn his Easter message, which took clear potshots at how Vance and Trump are demonizing immigrants.
“How a lot contempt is stirred up at occasions in direction of the weak, the marginalized and migrants,” the pope wrote within the message that was delivered to tens of hundreds of individuals gathered on the Vatican for Easter.
Pope Francis meets with Trump and first woman Melania Trump on the event of their personal viewers, on the Vatican, on Could 24, 2017.
“On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!” the pope continued.
“I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others,” he added, “but rather to use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development. These are the ‘weapons’ of peace: weapons that build the future, instead of sowing seeds of death.”
In the meantime, in the future prior, Francis set Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and international minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, to satisfy with Vance. The Vatican stated there was an “exchange of opinions” in regards to the Trump administration’s remedy of migrants and refugees.
In layman’s phrases, the pope’s emissaries dressed Vance down.
Francis has criticized the Trump administration over its immigration insurance policies earlier than, together with in a February letter by which Francis particularly criticized Vance, who’s a Catholic convert.
However Francis stated Vance had perverted that idea.
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” Francis wrote in a letter to American bishops. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted [is] love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”
In the end, the truth that Vance met with Francis a number of hours earlier than Francis died is one more weird and embarrassing occasion in Vance’s vice presidency.
Final week, Vance dropped the trophy the Ohio State College soccer crew dropped at the White Home for a celebration of the crew’s nationwide championship victory.
And who can overlook how awkwardly he ordered donuts on the marketing campaign path.
In the end, assembly the pope hours earlier than his loss of life has sparked a barrage of hilarious memes, which made enjoyable of the truth that Vance is so smarmy that his presence led the pope to need to die.
“Pope Francis held on that little bit longer just so we could all point and call JD Vance the Pope Killing Anti-Christ. Best Pope in my lifetime, RIP,” one X person stated.
“I don’t think JD Vance killed the Pope, I think meeting JD Vance probably drained the Pope’s will to live. It’s subtly different,” one other X person wrote.
Couldn’t have stated it higher ourselves.
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