The Vatican City – After leaving the Marines and starting his high education, the Vice President JD Vance was drifted to atheism – struggling, He was writing in the endWith the feelings of “lack of connection” in his faith and “the desire for social acceptance between American elites.”
Vans, who later turned into Catholicism, at the end of this week, took his second trip to the Vatican in less than a month. On the first visit, Vans met Pope Francis on Easter, hours before his death. On Sunday, Vans led an American delegation in the opening block of the first Pope in the United States, Liu XIV.
Bontev – Francis, during the papacy, presented Liu at his previous service as Robert Francis Pievost – blocked reprimanding but easily his symbols to President Donald Trump and “America First” in Vans. Vans, somewhat unusual for someone who enjoys discussion, chose to avoid criticism politely. But the conditions of the past few weeks have shed light on its religion, which enhances its situation as one of the highest Catholics in the world in the political position.
On Sunday’s Mass, the Vice President scored a major seat in the first row to the right of Dais, near the delegations from Italy and Peru, where the Pope is a homogeneous citizen and works as a bishop and a head of bishops.
Liu spoke in his sermon, which was delivered in the Italian language, about “many wounds resulting from hatred, violence, prejudice, fear of the difference and the economic model that exploits the land resources and marginalizes the poorest,” according to a translation in the English language presented by the Vatican.
Vans and the second lady, Osha Vans, received the Pope shortly before leaving the Vatican on Sunday.
Vans said during the opening of a triple meeting on Sunday afternoon in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Lin.
The White House was keen to fram this week’s visit in historical terms.
“Pope Liu XIV is the first American Pope. Vice President Vancer is the first Catholic conversion to be vice president,”
Vans is the second Catholic to serve as Vice President, after Joe Biden, who became the second Catholic president, after John F. Kennedy. Biden grew up in the Catholic Church, while Vans came to that as an adult. The joining of Vans in Rome and the Vatican was the end of this week Father Henry StefanThe priest who was baptized in 2019.
After landing in Rome at Sunset on Saturday evening, Vans’s procession was first launched to Bazilica St. Mary Megur, where he and the second lady paid their respect in the grave of Francis.
In February, Francis sent a message to the American bishop It was Many see it as reprimand Trump’s immigration policy in general and the justification of Vans for it in particular. Vans responded by trying to defuse any tensions. Talk to National breakfast of Catholic prayer In the same month, Vans said that although the criticism of Francis surprised him, the Pope was “a person mainly concerned with the throat of Christians under his leadership.”
The observation came after Vans, known for his combat presence online, expressed his regret that the rise of social media is unhealthy to religious discourse. (Vans’s excuse for the recent Trump post, which includes the image of Amnesty International, depicting the president as a joke.)
“We are not called as Christians to appreciate every controversy on the social media that involves the Catholic Church,” Vans said. “Whether it involves the clerics, bishops, or the Holy Father himself, I think we should frankly come out a page of our ancestors, who respected the clergy, who looked at them to obtain instructions, but we did not underestimate or fight on every one word that came out of their mouth and entered social media. I don’t think this is good.”
Vans struck a similar tone this month after the election of Leo, where the Pope drew attention to the stories he shared on social media as the Cardinal criticizing Trump and Fase. While wrestling with Leo’s policy in Interview with conservative commentator Hugh HoyetteVans gave an accurate answer and said he prefers “not to play the Pope’s game.”
However, despite all the social media in Vans, he sent years before his presidency that the papacy is an authority hesitant to cross.
in Article 2020 He wrote about his transformation in the lamp, a Catholic magazine, Vans recalled the confrontation of “Catholic writer conservative about his criticism of the Pope.” “Many American Catholics failed to show the correct respect for Babyla, as he treats the Pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their importance.”
Fanness’s conversion is a less mysterious part of his past. Regardless of the lamp article and Ideas shared with a conservative friend Who attended his baptism, away from the public masses, Vans spoke to some extent His spiritual journey.
In the breakfast of the Catholic prayer in February, Vans pointed out his marriage between religions to Usha, who is Hindu, and how to raise their three children Catholics while allowing them to set the date of baptism. He said that his most exciting moments last November-in the month that was elected Vice President-when he chose his 7-year-old son to deliberately.
“One of the things I try to remember myself as a conversion is that there is a lot that I do not know,” Vans said on that day. “When I was a child, we used to call the new converts to Christians faith. I realized that I am a Catholic child, and that there are things about the faith that I do not know. So I try to be modest as much as I could when I talk about faith publicly, because I will not always get it.”
