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Met the day before his death Pope Francis With Vice President Jd vance Together and used his Easter greeting to continue his call to friendliness towards migrants.
Francis encouraged the Catholics in his Easter greetingTo welcome people “from distant countries”. “How much contempt is sometimes fueled by the weak, the marginalized and the migrants!” He said.
“On this day I want us to draw all new hope. And revive our trust in others. Even in those who are different from us or from distant countries and bring us foreign customs, ways of life and ideas! Because we are all children of God!”
The Pope gave him chocolate eater for his children
Francis, the first Latin American Pope, has not exactly distributed subtle swipes against the Trump government. In 2016, during a visit to Mexico near the US border, Francis described everyone who supports the construction of walls as “not Christian”. Then Donald Trump gave the puzzling Explanation fromthat if the Vatican is attacked by IS, one would like to have Trump was president.
Most recently, the Pope repented Vance in February for using the Church’s teaching to justify the cruel treatment of immigrants by the Trump government.
The Pope also met with Vance, who was converted into Catholicism in 2019. The Pope gave him chocolate egg eggs for his children as well as a Vatican tie and rosary.
“I know that you didn’t feel good. But it’s nice to see you in better health,” said Vance to Francis, who had recovered from pneumonia. The vice president’s wagon column was held according to information the associated press in the Vatican for 17 minutes.
Vance had a perhaps more important meeting on Saturday with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the second most important representative of the Vatican. They talked about immigration.
“Peaceful cooperation between the state and the Catholic Church in the United States”
“There was an exchange of views of the international situation. Especially over countries that are affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations. With particular attention to migrants, refugees and prisoners”, “, according to a Explanation of the Vatican.
“Finally, the hope of peaceful cooperation between the state and the Catholic Church in the United States was expressed, the valuable service of which was recognized for the weakest people.”
In February Francis seemed to be sharply criticized the Trump government when he In a letter wrote that the teaching of the church asked their supporters to welcome migrants. “I carefully followed the severe crisis, which is evident in the United States with the introduction of a mass deportation program,” he wrote. “A right conscience cannot avoid making a critical judgment. And to express his rejection of every measure that tacitly or expressly equates the illegal status of some migrants with crime.”
“What is structured on violence and not on truth about the same dignity of every person starts bad and will end badly,” he added.
“Just google ‘Ordo Amoris'”
A few weeks earlier, Vance had cited Catholic theology to justify the preference for US citizens to non-citizens. “Just google ‘Ordo Amoris'”, wrote he on X. and defended one Statementthat he had made at Fox News. Ordo Amoris says according to the Old theologians Augustine that all people should be loved equally. However, that you should prefer those who are closer to you “because you can’t do all good”.
Francis has the meaning of this thought in his letter clarified from February. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that gradually extend to other people and groups. The true Ordo Amoristhat has to be encouraged is the one we discover when we are constantly thinking about the parable of the ‘merciful Samaritan’. This means that when we think about the love that builds a fraternity that is open to everyone without exception. ”
“Things in faith that I don’t know”
Later in the same month, Vance described himself as a “baby Catholic” at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington. He said there are “things in faith that I don’t know”.
“I just experienced from the death of Pope Francis,” Vance wrote on X. “My heart is with the millions of Christians around the world who loved him. I was happy to see him yesterday, although he was obviously very sick. May God rest his soul.”