‘JD Vance is wrong’: the pope seems uncomfortable with Trump -immigration policy

Months before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American Pope, a social media account criticized under his name on vice -president JD Vance, in which an article was shared that the interpretation of the vice president of the Christian doctrine called ‘error’.

The piece, Published in the National Catholic Reporterwas a refutation of the interpretation of Mr. Vance of a Catholic doctrine that he had used to defend the Trump government’s deportation policy.

The post on X, which shared the account in February, was one of the many that emphasized articles that criticize the views of the Trump government on immigration.

In April, the account that apparently belonged to Cardinal Prevost, commented from a Catholic writer who asked whether President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador saw “the suffering” caused by their immigration policy.

“Is your consciousness not disturbed?” The writer, Rocco Palmo, wrote. “How can you stay still?”

In July 2015, the Cardinal Prevost account posted an article by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan van New York that described the ‘anti-immigrant rhetoric’ of Mr Trump as ‘problematic’. Three years later, the account shared a function of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich from Chicago and said that there was “nothing remotely Christian, American or morally defensible” about the policy of the administration to separate migrant children from their parents.

The criticism of Mr Trump largely reflects the positions of Pope Francis, who also expressed his disagreement with the deportation policy of the administration. While Cardinal Prevost seemed to be relatively active on X, the account largely shunned the expression of its own opinions and instead made comments from church leaders and articles of Catholic news broadcasts.

Sometimes the Cardinal’s account was prevosted in other controversial areas of American politics. In 2020 it shared a statement signed by seven American bishops who said they were “broken, sick and indignant” by the murder of George Floyd, which they described as a “wake-up call”.

So far, Mr. Trump not to keep a resort against the pope for earlier criticism. In Own message on XThe president said he was looking forward to meeting the new pope.

Mr. Vance, a Catholic convert who met Pope Francis shortly before his death, also sent well on Thursday afternoon.

“Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American pope, in his election!” He wrote on social media. “I am sure that millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work that leads the church. May God bless him!”

Kate Conger contributed reporting.