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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 | Newsworthy 1

"... 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 | Newsworthy 1

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 | Newsworthy 1

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

#10 | Posted by anton at 2025-04-19 06:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Funny: 1

11. You don't know ---- about much, do you?

#12 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-19 11:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"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."

"White Christian Nationalism" is probably the most outrageous oxymoron ever developed to "whitewash" (get it?) so many evil beliefs of NAZI scum today. No, I'm not a practicing Catholic today ,despite being raised in a very devout Catholic family, but sometimes this Pope has challenged me to consider returning because of the idea of "compassion" that he has represented and attempted to teach to the unteachable like Vance.
Scott seems to yearn for the bad, old days when Popes didn't defend the defenseless against monsters like Hitler. The Catholic Church has become much more representative of the values Jesus taught since Pope John the 23rd which Scott seems to think has destroyed the church with excesses of compassion. I suspect Jesus would have been a very vocal critic of the exportation of criminals, who have not been charged nor convicted, to hell hole prisons in El Salvador. When will our Supreme Court find its humanity and remember the words "no cruel or unusual punishments" and "habeas corpus" which the Trump administration is trying to eliminate from our memories; unsuccessfully though! Thankfully!

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-20 07:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13 | Posted by danni

Yes.

You are correct and ScattS is a dirtbag troll.

#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-20 08:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#11

A Sedevacantist! Well, you are quite the little Fascista, aren't you? Explains a lot.

#15 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-20 09:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This post aged well ...

#16 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-04-21 09:29 AM | Reply

And now he's dead

#17 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-04-21 11:13 AM | Reply

Well he's damn sure NOT meeting with Vance again!

#18 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-21 04:20 PM | Reply

Why did JD Vance kill the Pope?

#19 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-04-21 05:04 PM | Reply

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