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Vice President JD Vance shared that although he was “surprised” by Pope Francis’ Criticism about the immigration policy of the Trump administration, he believes that the Pontiff is “fundamentally a person who cares about the flock of Christians.”
While talking at the National Breakfast of Catholic prayer in Washington, DC, on Friday, Vance, a convert to Catholicism, said that although it does not agree with Francis and some Catholic bishops in certain positions, he and his children pray for the Pope every day.
Francis, 88, is Currently suffering From pneumonia and an infection in both lungs and is being treated at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
Earlier this month, Francis issued an important reprimand Of the Trump administration plans for the massive deportations of migrants, stressing that the overwhelming elimination of people simply by their immigration state deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.”
Vice President JD Vance speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2025.
Francis wrote a letter to US bishops, in which he seemed to criticize Vance’s religious argument in defense of deportation policies.
Despite this, Vance shared a message of unity between Catholics and Christians, saying: “I do not think it is good for us as Christians constantly fighting each other for each controversy in the Church.”
“Sometimes we should let these things develop a bit and try to live our faith as best we can, under the dictates of our faith and under the dictates of our spiritual leaders, but not keep them in the standards of the influential ones in social networks because they are not,” he added. “My goal is not to litigate when I am right and when they are wrong or vice versa. My goal is perhaps to articulate the way I think about being a Christian in public life when you also have religious leaders in public life who have the spiritual duty of talking about the issues of the day.”
The vice president even led the attendees in a prayer for the Pope.
Pope Francis greets from his population after the weekly prayers of Angelus, in the Plaza de San Pedro in El Vaticano on October 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
“I think the Pope is fundamentally a person who cares about the flock of Christians under his leadership, and is a man who cares about the spiritual direction of faith,” Vance said. “Every day, my children and I have said a prayer for the Holy Father, and we pray for his health, and pray for his comfort while he treats what appears to be a quite serious health crisis.”
Shared a significant memory of the message of courage and hope of the Pope in the first days of the Covid-19 pandemiathat started only weeks after the birth of his daughter.
“I will always remember the Holy Father, whether he makes his way through this disease, and certainly I hope he does it, I will always remember the Holy Father in March 2020, at a time of incredible stress for the entire world … The Holy Father standing in a Plaza de San Pedro empty, holding the Eucharist above his head and giving a sermon that I return consistently, because it was incredibly incredible for me at the time (Y) of the present.
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Concluding, said Vance: “If the Holy Father can hear us, I hope he knows that there are thousands of faithful Catholics in this room and millions of faithful Catholics in this country who pray for him while trying his particular storm.”
