Yesterday, JD Vance warned the pontiff — not to opine on “matters of US politics” — saying that Leo should stick to questions of… morality.
For his part, no punching bag, for wanna be bullies, he — the Pope has responded directly, by saying this war of choice is not primarily a political question, at all — but it does evince a profound lack of. . . morality.
JD Vance should have seen that forceful, and clearly correct, retort forming even before the Veep offered his idiotic remarks, thus trying vainly to defend Tangerine 2.0 — now in a quagmire entirely of his own making (after pretending to be the second coming of Jesus well after midnight on Sunday, into Monday — then preposterously claiming he was dressed as a “doctor” in the meme he personally posted). Riiiiight.
Here’s the latest out of Detroit News, in any event:
…Pope Leo warned of the risk of democracies sliding into “majoritarian tyranny” on Tuesday, in a letter issued by the Vatican two days after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the pontiff on social media.
The first U.S. pope, writing to participants of a Vatican meeting about the use of power in democratic societies, said democracies remained healthy only when they were rooted in moral values.
“Lacking this foundation, (democracy) risks becoming either a majoritarian tyranny or a mask for the dominance of economic and technological elites,” said Leo in the letter.. . .
Pope Leo XIV [said on] Monday that he planned to keep criticizing the war, despite Trump’s comments.
In Tuesday’s letter, the pope said the Catholic Church taught that power could not be seen as an end in itself “but as a means ordered toward the common good“….
Spot on. Well said, Pope Leo XIV… onward, resolutely. And Vance, if not Trump — well knows that Leo speaks to — and for — perhaps 75 million US Catholics.
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