'Shut up, JD!' CNN pundit rages at Vance for 'picking a fight with the Holy Father'
Vice President J.D. Vance got dressed down Tuesday afternoon by CNN pundit Paul Begala for picking a public fight with Pope Francis.
Begala appeared on "State of the Union" with host Jake Tapper to discuss Vance's recent comments about "ordo amoris," Latin for "the order of love." Vance used the Catholic theory on Fox News to try to justify mass deportations, and the Pontiff wasn't having it.
"Pope Francis sent a message on Tuesday to clear up Vance’s comments. Without mentioning the vice president by name, he attacked Vance’s entire logic for the Trump administration’s cruel policies," wrote New Republic's Malcolm Ferguson.
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The Pope wrote in part, “Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity. Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: The human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation."
Begala told CNN that even "Cardinal Dolan, a big fan of President Trump's...gave the invocation at his inaugural. He...says, 'Mr. Trump has been particularly sensitive to the feelings of the religious community.' Okay, a pro-Trump cardinal said that Vance's comments were 'not true, scurrilous, and nasty.'"
Begala continued, "And I've got to say, as a faithful Catholic — J.D. has been a Catholic for about five years. We're glad to have him, okay? But he's already picking a fight with the Holy Father! There's a Latin phrase for that we have in the Catholic Church, 'chutzpah,'" Begala joked.
"Yeah, like shut up, J.D.! Do your job as vice president! Don't tell the Holy Father how to run our church!"
