Vance says he won’t play ‘politicization of the Pope game’

Vice President JD Vance He refused to talk about politics about the newly elected Pope on Friday, calling his choice a “big thing”.

“So many people my whole life span said you will never have American Pope“Vance said to the conservative radio presenter Hugh Hewitt after he asked for his reaction to his choice.” Obviously, we are now, so I think it’s a great thing. ”

Vance added that “we don’t know much about him, but I just wish him the best, aren’t I?

The vice president told Hewitt that something like the choice of a new Pope can often become “colored” by politics.

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“People ask if he is a conservative or is liberal,” Vance continued. “Will the attack of President Trump and JD Vance on certain things and did not attack Democrats on other things.”

He said his thoughts were difficult to “fit a 2,000 -year -old institution in 2025 politics.”

Vance added that, as a Catholic convert, he tries to “not play the politicization of the Pope game. I am sure he will say a lot of things I love. I am sure he will say some things I disagree with, but I will continue to pray for him and the Church, despite all that, and that will be the way I lead it.”

Vance’s remarks followed after spreading news of X account Related to Cardinal Robert transportation, now Pope Leo XIV, who published articles earlier this year by criticizing Trump’s administration for his pressure on deportation.

He also agreed with Hewitt that he was “disappointing” what the journalists asked the cardinal at a press conference about Leo’s elections about Trump.

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“The church is so bigger than politics,” he said, adding that most of the millions of millions Catholics In the United States, he doesn’t care if the Pope is liberal or conservative.

He continued: “There is a lot of views that the Catholic leadership holds, you know, you might consider on the right side of the spectrum. There are a lot of views that will keep, and that could be traditionally on the left side of the spectrum. And then there is a lot of views that are not overwhelmed by politics at all.”

Vance said that although the Church touches public policy from time to time, “this is not really what is concerned.”

“I think it would be better for all of us to allow the Church to relate to the rescue of souls and we did not try to incorporate it into a predetermined political framework,” he concluded.

Pope Leo XIV was chosen that he inherited Pope Francis on Thursday the death of a former last month After a health battle.

President Trump quickly congratulated Leo on his selection on Thursday.

“Such is the honor of realizing that he is the first American pope,” he wrote in the truth of Social Post. “What an excitement and what a great honor for our country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!”

However, other conservatives like Steve Bannon, a former main strategist of the White House in Trump’s first administration and Catholics, called Leo the “worst choice ever”.

Pro-Trump conservative commentator Joey Mannarino took to x To charge that “the new Pope recently attacked JD Vance, he showed solidarity with Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and begged Trump to open the boundaries as Biden had. This guy is worse than Francis.”

Conservative Radio presenter Charlie Kirk said in the video on X: “Let’s just, not so great tweets that we have a willingness for open limits. We will see somehow he is on that. Also, some things George Floyd that I’m not too crazy about.”

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Kirk added that “Overall, it seems that the warrior is pervaded. He still has a lot to learn about this Pope, but I hope he will be a strong advocate of strong borders. And for sovereignty.”