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Vance and Rubio meet Pope Leo in push to reset relations with Vatican

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      JD Vance
      Where I think President Trump’s policy is most in accord with Christian social teaching and with the Catholic faith, is that more than any president of my lifetime, President Trump has pursued a path of peace,
      The Washington Post
      Vance said
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      Anders Arborelius
      It is difficult to imagine someone whose character is more unlike [the] another American who has pretended to be pope,
      The Washington Post
      the Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said in a statement
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      I stand with the #Dreamers.”
      The Washington Post
      Another retweet began
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      I can imagine that Pope Leo, with his gentle appearance, can succeed in reaching the world’s powerful with the gospel’s message of peace and reconciliation.”
      The Washington Post
      He added
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      Donald Trump
      There will be very significant differences between Pope Leo and this Bannon-Vance wing of the Church,
      The Washington Post
      he added, referring to Trump’s former aide Stephen K. Bannon who has criticized the Church’s support for migrants
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      All of us, in the course of our lives, can find ourselves healthy or sick, employed or unemployed, living in our native land or in a foreign country, yet our dignity always remains unchanged,
      The Washington Post
      he said
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      I understand there’s this temptation to cover the papacy as a political office. It is not a political office. It is a spiritual office,
      The Washington Post
      he said
    • 88:88
      JD Vance
      I'm not going to soil the man's legacy by talking about politics, I think he was a great Christian pastor and that's how I choose to remember the Holy Father.
      Daily Mail
      After the Latin American Pope died, Vance diplomatically told reporters
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      Pope Leo I
      There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages.
      Daily Mail
      Pope Leo also shared a post in 2018 that read
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      There is going to be extra weight because he is American. I think there's going to be a lot of extra eyes, and maybe criticisms,
      The Manila Times
      said Sophia Tripp, a 20-year-old student visiting from Leo's hometown of Chicago
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      We are called to offer God's love to everyone, in order to achieve that unity which does not cancel out differences but values the personal history of each person and the social and religious culture of every people,
      The Manila Times
      he said
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      Originally, the only hope I had coming here was to see the inside of the Sistine Chapel,
      The Manila Times
      he said
    • 88:88
      In Gaza, children, families and elderly survivors are reduced to hunger."
      CNA
      In his Regina Coeli prayer at the end of the mass, Pope Leo also noted
    • 88:88
      Nice to see you again."
      CNA
      In a video published by the Vatican, the soft-spoken Pope Leo told the Ukrainian leader
    • 88:88
      May the prayers for a just peace and a dignified life for all people be heard,
      CNA
      he said
    • 88:88
      JD Vance
      Certainly our prayers go with him as he starts this very important work,
      Japan Today
      Vance said at a meeting with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
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      Brothers and sisters, this is the hour for love,"
      Axios
      As he closed his homily, he emphasized ... according to the New York Times
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      I try not to play the politicisation of the Pope game
      Daily Mail
      Vance last week appeared to brush aside Leo's previous criticisms as he told conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt
    • 88:88
      Volodymyr Zelenskyy
      The message is the same as before: we want to end the war, and they don't,
      Daily Mail
      said the source, referring to what Zelensky told Vance during the encounter
    • 88:88
      JD Vance
      Vice President Vance is now meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine,
      Deutsche Welle
      at the US ambassador's residence, the French AFP news agency quoted a Vance spokesperson as saying