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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A large number of American Catholics reject papal authority when they don’t like what the Pope says. Pope Francis has been clear that communion should not be denied based on political belief- as politicized bishops tried to deny it to prominent Catholic democrats. Notably, Catholic democrats did not attempt to support policies with doctrine. They governed secularly. They did not contradict the Pope or Catholic teaching.

Vance twists scripture and contradicts the teaching of the church. For example:

Vice President JD Vance is getting schooled by theologians over his inverted theology expressed in a Jan. 29 interview on Fox News.

What Vance said: “There’s this old school — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way — that you love your family and then you love your neighbor and then you love your community and then you love your fellow citizens and your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.

“A lot of the far left has completely inverted that. They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders. That is no way to run a society.  And I think the profound difference that Donald Trump brings to the leadership of this country is the simple concept of America First. It doesn’t mean you hate anybody else, it means that you have leadership. And President Trump has been very clear about this — that puts the interests of American citizens first. In the same way that the British prime minister should care about Brits and the French should care about the French, we have an American president who cares primarily about Americans, and that’s a very welcome change.”

Politics aside, numerous Christian theologians took to social media to point out the vice president — who is a conservative Catholic — misrepresented the teachings of Jesus and the Gospels.

“Actually no. This misses the point of Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan.”
“Actually no,” wrote Jesuit priest and author James Martin. “This misses the point of Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should ‘love your neighbor as yourself,’ the lawyer asks him, ‘And who is my neighbor?

“In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a ‘priest’ and a ‘Levite’), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.

“So Jesus’ fundamental message is that everyone is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It’s specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our ‘neighbors.’

“But Jesus’ deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: Our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the ‘stranger.’[/quote]

Vance is strictly a politician. He doesn't give one crap about doctrine.
Here's what it is: Vance intertwining politics and Christian faith because it's the Christian/evangelical base the republicans feel obligated to pander to. They all have to reference their faith and God now. I don't know why he chose to convert to Catholicism; but he's just using the facade and manipulating terms and concepts to form Christian rationale to fit the politics and the administration's policies. He's banking on nobody knowing what the fancy Latin phrases and doctrinal concepts actually mean (and the few who do not having sufficient bully pulpit to correct him with the greater public). By spouting the terms, he comes off as knowledgeable and therefore credible. He's a hypocrite. He probably actually knows what the concept really means, but since it doesn't genuinely matter to him spiritually or faithfully, he is just manipulating it to fit the political narrative he needs.
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