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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Pope Francis skipped the Vatican's official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement. Pope Francis was absent from Vance's conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin. However, the statement said there was "an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners." It called for "serene collaboration" between the White House and the Catholic Church in the United States"a seeming hint to the tensions that have brewed between the two since President Donald Trump took office.

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"It called for "serene collaboration" between the White House and the Catholic Church in the United States"

Looks like we're gonna have another Pro-Nazi Pope when Francis bites the dust!

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-19 03:37 PM | Reply

VD Prance

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-19 03:46 PM | Reply

"... having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion"

Not a word that he nor DJT could even spell.

Good for this Pope; he's not got time left to do many things, but although lecturing the Trump admin on compassion is futile, it's also important.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-19 03:53 PM | Reply

Another humiliation VD Jance brought upon his wife. How much more can Usha shallow? Shunned in Greenland, booed at the Kennedy Center, and now this. And did Cardinal Pietro Parolin stare at the dot on her forehead or had she taken it off in order to blend in the white supremacists of the GOP? english.cdn.zeenews.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-19 03:53 PM | Reply

I think maybe Peter Thiel used a Herr Musk SpaceX link implant to take over Vance's brain; he at one time was half a liberal, or at least not MAGA, and saw Trump for the Hitleresque cult figure that he is, and to a similar white nationalist rwing populist voting group funded by Elites in Germany 90 years ago. Which was short-lived in the end, albeit disasterous.

And there's plenty of quotes of him saying so. But then it was like a switch was hit, and he became a Cro-Magnon MAGA Man.

Weird.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-19 04:39 PM | Reply

Does anyone else here confuse JD Vance with JA Jance?

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-04-19 04:58 PM | Reply

Apparently popey not into drag queens.

#7 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-19 06:05 PM | Reply

Corky- power or even the offer of it corrupts.

#8 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-19 06:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I hear Vance responded by fkkking a couch.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-19 06:11 PM | Reply

Vance should have more respectfully and said "thank you" more.

#10 | Posted by anton at 2025-04-19 06:45 PM | Reply

It is okay to respect the Catholic Church as symbol of Christianity - but, the Catholic Church needed the Protestant Reformation for a reason. This latest Catholic Church and horrible pope will likely be the last version of this Catholic Lite model that has destroyed the church in the eyes of most in the US.

#11 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-19 07:22 PM | Reply

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