Franciszek accepted the Vice President of the United States JD Vance on April 20. The next day, in the morning, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died. The details of the American politician's conversation with the head of the Catholic Church were not revealed.
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The Vatican only informed that the meeting lasted a few minutes and During it, they exchanged Easter wishes.
“I know that not his holiday is best, but nice to see you in a better condition” – JD Vance was supposed to say. The recordings from the meeting show that there was a conversation between the vice president and the Pope, but the words were barely audible.
As noted by Jan-Werner Müller, Professor of Politics at the Princeton University in the British “The Guardian”, “Perhaps we will never find out what Pope Francis told the US Vice President during their short meeting on Sunday“Despite this, the columnist and expert on American policy tempted to assess what the Pope really thought about JD Vance.
What did Pope Francis think about JD Vance? It was impossible
“Francis was as honest as possible without mentioning his names, when he criticized Vance in his February letter to the bishops of the US; but He not only registered his reprimand for Trump and the cruel treatment of refugees and migrants by Vance; reacted to a broader trend of instrumentalization of religion for nationalist and authoritarian populism“-explains Jan-Werner Müller in” The Guardian “.
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In the mentioned letter of the Pope from February, Francis explicitly explained that the mass activities of the Trump administration aimed at deportation and other activities lead to a “serious crisis”, which “destroys the dignity of men and women.”
In a February letter to American bishops The Pope seemed to answer Vance directly to the claim that Catholic doctrine justifies such policies. He himself confessed to the criticism of the head of the Catholic Church and assured that he would continue to defend his views.
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As Jan-Werner Müller notes in “The Guardian”, FRanciszek in the mentioned letter instructed the flock that “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interestswhich gradually expand to other people and groups. “
As an expert from the University of Princeton explains, “it is not that the correct understanding of Catholicism (or Christian-democratic political parties that existed in Europe and Chile) has always been liberal; it is unlikely. The point is that the point Francis confirmed that Catholicism is not consistent with the view of Trump “America above all” (and humanity at the end)“.
