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Dulcinea

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Thu Feb 6, 2025, 09:32 AM Feb 6

A short honeymoon for Catholics in D.C. as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration

(AP) The sense of Catholic unity didn’t last long. Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church.

The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants” in order to get federal funding. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who gave the invocation shortly before Vance took his oath of office, denounced the remarks as “scurrilous” and “nasty.”

Vance has claimed that a concept from medieval Catholic theology — “ordo amoris” in Latin — justifies the Trump administration’s America-first immigration crackdown. He contended that the concept delineates a hierarchy of care — to family first, followed by neighbor, community, fellow citizens and lastly those elsewhere.

Several scholars say Vance is promoting a simplistic misreading of the concept and that Catholic teaching requires the helping of strangers in urgent need.

https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-catholic-bishops-migration-94138954824b68dbd0b29b28504e056e

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A short honeymoon for Catholics in D.C. as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration (Original Post) Dulcinea Feb 6 OP
Misanthrope no_hypocrisy Feb 6 #1
Have they excommunicated him yet? tetedur Feb 6 #2
that would be true of ALL repukes Skittles Feb 6 #5
Shady Vance Deep State Witch Feb 6 #3
They've alienated almost everyone else Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 6 #4

tetedur

(1,234 posts)
2. Have they excommunicated him yet?
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 09:51 AM
Feb 6

He seems to be fundamentally at odds with their core principles.

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