Vice President JD Vance, a convert to Catholicism whose faith has been central to his adult life, writes about his religious journey in a new book.
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JD Vance invokes Pope Leo on AI and warfare in Air Force Academy graduation address
“If the warfare of the future is to live up to the moral values of our ancestors, decisions over life and death must be made by humans and not machines,” Vice President Vance said.
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JD Vance says Pope Leo’s new AI encyclical ‘sounds very profound,’ welcomes just war ‘rethink’
JD Vance previously sparked controversy in April by invoking just war theory in reference to the Trump administration’s conflict in Iran after President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo’s opposition to that war.
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JD Vance ‘looking forward to reading’ Pope Leo’s AI encyclical
Vice President JD Vance said at the White House that he is “looking forward to reading” Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” addressing artificial intelligence.
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Dear JD Vance: The Iran war is very much Pope Leo’s business.
JD Vance appears to see delighting in death and making genocidal threats as not matters of morality—and thus something the pope should just keep quiet about.
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US bishops’ doctrine chair defends church’s just war tradition after JD Vance comments
Shortly after Vice President JD Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to “be careful” when speaking about theology and taking issue with his description of the U.S. conflict in Iran as unjust, the U.S. bishops’ point-man on doctrine issued a forceful statement on the Church’s teaching about just war theory.
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After Trump’s Leo rant, JD Vance says Vatican should ‘stick to matters of morality’
Speaking to Fox News April 13, Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, addressed Trump’s social media post, saying, “We can respect the pope, we certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we’re also going to disagree on substantive questions from time to time.”
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JD Vance to publish book exploring his conversion to Catholicism
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Vice President JD Vance will publish a new book this summer exploring his conversion to Catholicism as an adult, The Associated Press reported March 31. Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith will be published June 16, the HarperCollins Publishers imprint Harper told AP. HarperCollins is also the publisher of Vance’s […]
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Cardinal Dolan: Vance ‘apologized’ for ‘out of line’ comments about US bishops and immigration
“When he (Vance) suggested that bishops in the United States were pro-immigrant because we were making money which was not only untrue, it was scurrilous—and he apologized,” said Cardinal Dolan. “He says, ‘That was out of line and that’s not true.’”
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JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.