Vice President JD Vance said Monday that Pope Leo XIV should focus on moral issues rather than political disputes as tensions arose between the Trump administration and the Catholic Church after President Donald Trump publicly rebuked the pope over the pontiff’s criticism of the Iran war.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, made the remarks during an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier and backed Trump’s response to Leo, who has condemned the conflict and warned against further escalation, with the vice president saying it is reasonable for Trump to disagree when the Vatican comments on American public policy.
“I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic Church,” Vance said. “Let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.”
The vice president said he
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