The Pope Slaps JD Vance
Pope Francis just said to JD Vance, “You just claimed your foreign policy follows Catholic doctrine? Shut your mouth… and meditate.”
To summarize: JD Vance claimed in an interview that new US foreign policy (ie withdrawing all foreign aid everywhere abruptly by closing USAID) followed Ordo Amoris.
The pope responded, writing a letter to his bishops saying, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’ (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”