TRUE CHRISTIAN LOVE

Pope Appears to School JD Vance in Letter Rebuking Mass Deportations

The pope appeared to address the vice president directly in the letter.

Pope Francis appeared to take a moment to school Vice President JD Vance on a key theological concept in a letter rebuking the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. The Latin American pontiff, who has long advocated for migrants, said in a letter to U.S. bishops that “the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families.” A portion of the Pope’s letter dives into the concept of “ordo amoris”—order of love—which Vance, a Catholic convert, has used to defend the deportation of migrants. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” the Pope wrote. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.” Trump’s border czar Tom Homan earlier said the Pope should lay off the issue. “I wish he’d stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us,” he told reporters.