After several days of rumors, it is therefore confirmed: JD Vance will be received at the Vatican, Saturday April 19, before attending the family of Easter celebrations. According to the official program, the vice-president of the United States, who spoke the day before with the president of the Italian council, Giorgia Meloni, must meet Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See and number two of the Vatican. From Friday evening, he went to Saint-Pierre for the Good Friday office.
The case is important for both parties, in full scramble between the Church and the Trump administration, JD Vance in mind. By defending the eviction policy decided by the White House, this convert to Catholicism, a follower of a “postliberal” current, allowed itself to typed the Church and through it the Vatican on its own land, theology.
Guest on the set of CBSon January 26, the American vice-president made Donald Trump's lawyer by quoting Saint Augustine and his concept ofOrdo Amoris (Order of Love): Either the idea, According to JD Vance, “That we love his family, then his neighbors, then his community and, then, his compatriots and, finally, that we give priority to the rest of the world ”. To those who disputed his interpretation of the Augustinian concept, including in the Catholic hierarchy, he did not hesitate to answer: “You just have to googlize. »» Pope Francis himself, for whom the defense of migrants is a cardinal principle, felt obliged to intervene by letter and to correct the American.
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Source: Lemonde