Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope... - ThreadSky

willbunch.bsky.social • 73 days ago

Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world

That's how big a loser JD Vance is https://apnews.com/article/pope-trump-migration-09a89091f8e7dc3270099f0947d04e90

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alkali19.bsky.social•73 days ago

This is almost as unfair as that time the Dalai Lama publicly took issue with my statement that the central tenet of Buddhism is “show me the money”

antiauthoritarian.bsky.social•73 days ago

Hmmm… he professes to be a Catholic and therefore prays to be “delivered from evil” and then himself willfully commits evil acts that do harm to others.

Mr. Vance, could you please explain? Like the Pope, we are confused.

smijnbovendeert.bsky.social•61 days ago

No one puts the vice in vice president quite like Vance.

quellingly.bsky.social•73 days ago

In fairness he didn’t convert to one of the world’s current major religions. He converted to Thiel’s bizarre vision of his pre-Vatican II land of lost content under Pius XII.

dappleathome.bsky.social•73 days ago

@harvard.edu would like it’s degree back (I hope)

jcleone.bsky.social•73 days ago

Fortunately, JD is more Catholic than the pope

atriana.bsky.social•73 days ago

Says another non-Catholic "catholic."

jackfost5.bsky.social•73 days ago

Defeat Elon musk

theeotherbill.bsky.social•73 days ago

That's probably the point. The rebuke will make Evangelicals only like Vance more. Those ecumenicalizing with Christian nationalists are going to find out that not all denominations are going to be treated equally.

paperdragon77.bsky.social•73 days ago

People don’t get that diversity isn’t a luxury. If we don’t respect diversity, someone will find out realllll quick they were not pure enough for the most violent types.

aniccia.bsky.social•73 days ago

Parable of the Bad Samaritan

djvagirl.bsky.social•73 days ago

More famous people need to speak out against Trump (Musk) and their evil agenda!

copernicussees.bsky.social•73 days ago

Imagine that, except your "conversion" was totally insincere because you're actually a sociopath. I'm sure JV will be really torn up over this.

suissetine.bsky.social•73 days ago

The Pope has more balls than our Congress.

bluememe.bsky.social•73 days ago

True. But also a low bar.

55olds.bsky.social•73 days ago

Wish he’d had them in September when he told Catholics to vote for the lesser of two evils.

uscivilwar.bsky.social•73 days ago

The message was pretty clear to anyone willing to listen.

55olds.bsky.social•73 days ago

You’re absolutely correct. In my naivety, I was just hoping to hear a more definitive statement.

rowyourbot.bsky.social•73 days ago

Both he and Bannon are DEEPLY anti-Catholic but attracted to the power, influence, and wealth of certain Catholics. It’s chilling to see them try to clear (more) space for fascist hatred in the church (as unfortunately some have succumbed). The USA isn’t enough for them. They want a fascist world.

suddenlygarmo.bsky.social•73 days ago

salute to the person on the editorial staff who picked the perfect "so tired of your shit" image of his holiness

churlytemple.bsky.social•73 days ago

ill papa

backcountrylaw.bsky.social•73 days ago

As something of a medievalist, all I can say is that perhaps he should consider placing the United States under interdict? 😅

confusedpenguin.bsky.social•73 days ago

Or excommunication of JDV and every US Catholic who aids and abets.

backcountrylaw.bsky.social•73 days ago

Certainly, it'd be turn and turn about given that the conservative Archbishops and Bishops here are always threatening to turn liberal politicians away from communion.

avernalaw.bsky.social•73 days ago

Cardinal Dolan loves fellating Trump.

honestdenverman.bsky.social•73 days ago

Birds of a pedo feather.

teqology.bsky.social•72 days ago

great schism.......2!!

davidjohnurban.bsky.social•73 days ago

A Christian church leader sticking up for treating people who are widely abused and looked down upon with kindness and respect. Geez, seems almost like something their savior taught.

frenchbully.bsky.social•73 days ago

Looking forward to reading a Vance tweet saying the Pope is not the moral authority on the Trump agenda.

kmkelly.bsky.social•73 days ago

Oh, he is part of that large group of conservative American Catholic, who think that this pope is not a true pope. This is not gonna bother him in the least.

frenchbully.bsky.social•73 days ago

No clue what “large group” of Catholics there is that thinks he’s not a true Pope. They aren’t Catholic then.

kmkelly.bsky.social•73 days ago

They think France is a heretic leading the church away from true Catholic teachings

kmkelly.bsky.social•73 days ago

Look up Cardinal Dolan and his crowd was the opus DEI boys

frenchbully.bsky.social•73 days ago

Dolan can feel certain ways about topics but he doesn’t believe or act like he thinks Francis is illegitimate. But it does seem like Francis has pushed Dolan to the side a bit and that also probably bothers him.

techwitch.bsky.social•73 days ago

Sure, but it will bother other Catholics immensely.

drsaddison.bsky.social•73 days ago

Maybe even be off-putting to some Latinos.

navinpokala.bsky.social•73 days ago

In Vance's defense, his cruelty, racism, greed, and misogyny more accurately represents the views of mainstream American Christians than the Pope does. https://bsky.app/profile/willbunch.bsky.social/post/3lhw2wisqqk23

transonic.media•73 days ago

This is the same guy who sold out every belief he once claimed to have for a seat at Trump’s table. You don’t get to that level of moral emptiness and nihilism and suddenly care when the Pope calls you out.

brengun.bsky.social•72 days ago

US Catholics are among the biggest MAGAts of them all

carider.bsky.social•73 days ago

utinam.bsky.social•73 days ago

My Dad, the OG Dad joker, would have loved that.

carider.bsky.social•73 days ago

I got it from my Dad, he's the type that sits at his computer and re-reads jokes he's already seen dozens of times, then he prints them out so he can share them 😂

drsaddison.bsky.social•73 days ago

Does he then mail them to you? Because my mom's husband mails them to me.

carider.bsky.social•73 days ago

No, he's quite modern, he emails them to me. Not bad for a 90 year old 😀

drsaddison.bsky.social•73 days ago

Well done Dad! I still get comics and articles clipped from the newspaper.

rclyde.bsky.social•73 days ago

maybe the pope will give his eulogy cause this hillbilly is just dying~~ fuck him and his imaginary religious horse he rode in on

dhunterto.bsky.social•73 days ago

Truly shameful. But it is not as if Vance cares what the Pope says. Vance thinks he can divine God’s mind just fine alone on his couch.

boysek.bsky.social•73 days ago

Nah, he doesn't care about God. He cares about power.

sharoncarbine.bsky.social•72 days ago

JD Vance is pretending to be a "Catholic."

Vance is NOT a real Catholic! Vance is NOT even a Christian.

Vance is a LIAR, hypocrite & opportunist. Vance is not even true to his legal training.

elizabethwilson5.bsky.social•73 days ago

qlm326.bsky.social•73 days ago

He should also call out all the right wing “Catholics” who support Trump and Vance.

safaridreamer.bsky.social•73 days ago

When the Pope speaks people listen.

mchristinalo.bsky.social•73 days ago

I don't think it will phase these fake Christians. They'll just say he's woke.

chrisschroer.bsky.social•73 days ago

He should be excommunicated.

thedenature.bsky.social•73 days ago

Do you want antipopes?
Because this is how we get antipopes.

lukeyoquinto.bsky.social•73 days ago

reminder that the Pope excommunicated someone last year https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c84j07d0j92o

mollynme.bsky.social•73 days ago

That's awesome; he FA--I guess he's now in the FO phase.

atriana.bsky.social•73 days ago

Now if only he'd do that to Dolan.

anaphoristand.bsky.social•73 days ago

Tbf, JD Vance didn't so much convert to Catholicism, as join Opus Dei.
https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/revealed-how-opus-dei-has-flourished-in-the-era-of-trump-20241004-p5kfyn

ourhaus.bsky.social•60 days ago

And Leonard Leo.

katelavery.bsky.social•73 days ago

Exactly

julicarson.bsky.social•73 days ago

Excommunicate Vance!

meidasannie.bsky.social•73 days ago

You know how Gandalf always carried a big stick around to ground his magic? Well, if Francis sends a memo upstairs to his boss, Shady had better start toting a lightning rod.

reustis.bsky.social•73 days ago

Why do these trad-convert freakazoids always think they have the knowledge and skill to dispute dogma with a Jesuit, of all people? These people's RCIA leaders have some explaining to do.

techwitch.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance twists words and lies about everything. Why would his take on Catholic beliefs be any different?

willbunch.bsky.social•73 days ago

Pope Francis is all like Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall"

"You know nothing of my work..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csreWxZLnZM

mel-33.bsky.social•73 days ago

One of my favorite scenes in that movie. What a gem.

tubadrew.bsky.social•73 days ago

Similar vibe in "Back to School". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDLzLUmtU3w

dmyd.bsky.social•73 days ago

I loved that scene!

mapablue.bsky.social•73 days ago

leo gorcey voice:

"that's what we been tryin' tuh tell 'im, Faddah, but he's just an asshole."

patbreen221.bsky.social•72 days ago

Absolute kudos, much respect for the reference! LOL!

remarkable59.bsky.social•73 days ago

Sacrilege is the Republican religious creed.

msmilack75.bsky.social•73 days ago

I miss funny Woody Allen

msmilack75.bsky.social•73 days ago

One of my favorite scenes of all time - thank you for sharing it

wordilocks.bsky.social•73 days ago

Best movie ever. 😍

bombamusa.bsky.social•72 days ago

I mean the cathloic chruch condoned this so uh

kingnixon.bsky.social•72 days ago

first off, lol. and second, lol: "The Vatican, a walled-in, 44-hectare (108-acre) city state inside Rome, recently increased sanctions for anyone who illegally enters the territory. The December law calls for a prison term of up to four years and a fine of up to 25,000 euros"

donnade.bsky.social•72 days ago

What a joke… the Catholic Church is all for stomping on peoples human rights. …so long as they’re young males and don’t talk.

schimelsal.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’s fair to say
Vance is to Catholicism
as
Trump is to our Constitution
It works both ways.
They believe in nothing but monetary wealth & what it buys in the here & now.
Nothing.
Nihilism is too uplifting a term.
Drug infused echo chamber is closer.
Diabolical plot for world domination is hot.

bobyost.bsky.social•73 days ago

Every one of those who are working to destroy our country have a fistful of what they see as holy "Get out of Jail Free" grace cards in their shirt pockets...

"So, you say my policies have hurt a large number of vulnerable people, and likely killed some? Here, have one of my cards."

santanumalbum.bsky.social•72 days ago

Actually, #PopeFrancis should have published this letter back last October! Trump and Vance was making it clear that if elected deporting migrants was their first order of business!

heavenisalibrary.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’s almost like the Pope shouldn’t have proclaimed “both sides are bad” prior to the election when one side was clearly going to commit heinous acts on the daily.

brian-i-guess.bsky.social•73 days ago

Je suis Pope Francis having to read about trad Caths:

markosilberhand.bsky.social•73 days ago

.
Well,
the Pope knew it then and he knows it now . . .

... Trump is evil !

💠 🧐 💠

liberalbot.bsky.social•73 days ago

You're assuming Vance is actually an authentic Christian and not just using it as a platform for greater evil

quercus48.bsky.social•73 days ago

He has no moral center, he would join an evangelical church, if it helped his career.

domhnaill061.bsky.social•73 days ago

Literally nobody is assuming that. Catholic converts are largely just in it for the aesthetic and authoritarian vibes. Or the paedophilia.

antiauthoritarian.bsky.social•73 days ago

And loving the routine/ritual.

domhnaill061.bsky.social•73 days ago

They’re pretty good rituals if you ignore the words and the sentiment and the paedophilia tbf

antiauthoritarian.bsky.social•73 days ago

Are you living in Ireland, may I ask?

antiauthoritarian.bsky.social•73 days ago

Am sending apologies for the state of my country right now. Half of us appear to be idiots. I guess all nations have their share, but we’ve gone over the top.

domhnaill061.bsky.social•73 days ago

I am indeed

michaelnolan.bsky.social•73 days ago

A lot of the least Christian people on earth are converts

frenchbully.bsky.social•73 days ago

It seems very obvious that he converted for political/social influence and power.

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•73 days ago

Probably because the Catholics oppose abortion and LGBTQ people. Bad news for him is that the church also supports refugees, helping the poor, healthcare, and opposes capital punishment. It's not an American fundie church that preaches the Gospel of the GOP.

domhnaill061.bsky.social•73 days ago

Catholicism is gradually easing up on the LGBTQIA+ but you’d never know that from the vocal catholics

hollyphantpants.bsky.social•73 days ago

They don't kick them out of church but it's still regarded as a sin.

domhnaill061.bsky.social•73 days ago

Well he didn’t do it cos he read the Sermon on the Mount anyway

frenchbully.bsky.social•73 days ago

💯

eltopo71.com•73 days ago

Just excommunicate the motherfucker already. And everyone associated with Project 2025.

jctenton.bsky.social•73 days ago

getting the pope to make the time to personally call you an asshole is the most impressive thing jd vance has or ever will do

historiken.bsky.social•73 days ago

nasty little mammonite not getting half what he deserves

snjokoma.bsky.social•73 days ago

people who convert to religion well into adulthood are, from my experience, 1000x more evil than the average religious person

mellowno25.bsky.social•73 days ago

No matter what religious leader, mass deportations are wrong. And anyone with any kind of common sense, a heart or a conscience, knows it’s wrong. If you don’t have any religious affiliation, you also know it’s wrong. Power, greed and racism are what’s behind this.

dameofdestiny.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance joined the Catholic cult of Opus Dei to be closer to Kevin Roberts & Leonard Leo, the real powers behind the GOP.

thcarter123.bsky.social•73 days ago

https://medium.com/@thcarter123/the-christofascist-coup-jan-20-2025-977f61616f39

maverick72.bsky.social•73 days ago

JD Vance is a CINO (Catholic-in-name-only) who might want to review Matthew 25:40, which states, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."

janice40.bsky.social•73 days ago

Anyone wanna take bets on how quickly he “converts” to Christian Nationalist????

fredmckinlay.bsky.social•73 days ago

If Trumpaloopa wants to be King, then I suggest he looks back in history books at what happened to a lot of kings during the crusade when they pissed off the Catholic Church.

silencedogood2.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vatican Bubble didn’t see this coming? Does anyone read history books ? Pope is good person but isn’t he incredibly uninformed about US elections & democracy? What was he thinking 💭 saying that choosing candidates A or B was “the choice between 2 evils”…? Thanks so much!

chasingray.bsky.social•73 days ago

I just keep thinking of my traditionally Catholic French Canadian grandparents and how they would react to Vance. His behavior is just not something Catholics do. It’s the antithesis of everything I was taught as proper in the Catholic sphere.

innerpartisan.bsky.social•73 days ago

*record scratch* yepp, that's me

redmenace521.bsky.social•73 days ago

They don't Care.

siouxmac.bsky.social•73 days ago

That’s quite a big loser, indeed.

christianerobb.bsky.social•73 days ago

My understanding is that Van is a member of a very specific set of Catholicism as is/are members of Scotus.

changingtheworld.bsky.social•72 days ago

He should be excommunicated.

spacekaiju0078.bsky.social•72 days ago

Not saying this is legit, but it has some parallels
https://bsky.app/profile/elee9.bsky.social/post/3lhbzl7sjzk2o

leahleahbobeah.bsky.social•73 days ago

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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social

#14thNOW
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https://bsky.app/profile/johnbonifaz.bsky.social/post/3lhtr2ahn522x

christerfur.bsky.social•72 days ago

And Alito and Scalia and Roberts and Kavanaugh getting away with “Catholicizing” the Constitution.

pat0615.bsky.social•73 days ago

They don't give a rats ass what the pope thinks or any of us Americans. They are evil first.

hockey5.bsky.social•73 days ago

Two Corinthians walk into a bar! Donald Trump.

terrylong.bsky.social•73 days ago

Maybe he shouldn't have told American Catholics to vote for Trump?

truth2024.bsky.social•73 days ago

We can course correct today

Elections today GA, KS, NE, NY, WA, OK

& coming up in states from today through spring

We just flipped a deep red seat in Idaho blue let’s show this admin we will still vote & win

We can flip the House by summer

Our vote is still a biggest defense

dratom.bsky.social•73 days ago

In 2017, party affiliation was reportedly more important than religious affiliation. It has only become more-so.

MAGA Catholics may pay more attention to JDV than to Pope Francis, perhaps even on points of Catholic theology.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/08/political-party-identities-stronger-race-religion

snowmein.bsky.social•73 days ago

Trump will declare he is acquiring the Vatican next.

holborne.bsky.social•73 days ago

cencalmike.bsky.social•73 days ago

St. Paul, on people in charge of churches: "He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with deceit and fall into condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he does not fall into disgrace..." 1 Tim 3:6-7

wilsonh.bsky.social•73 days ago

Evergreen

ajdnyc82.bsky.social•73 days ago

How long before he does a Rod Dreher and converts to Eastern Orthodoxy after deciding Catholicism is too woke?

scorpiovenom.bsky.social•73 days ago

And his words will be quickly dismissed just as those of Bishop Budde.

sir-lacksalot.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance's Pope is Mel Gibson.

bchanson.bsky.social•73 days ago

I feel this picture so much

ericjwrites.bsky.social•73 days ago

I don't think much of the Pope, but any rebuke of Trump is good

cocothecat.bsky.social•73 days ago

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/catholic-right-celebrity-conversion-industrial-complex?srsltid=AfmBOooAmcUp6sjDsAqxLKeiw8THIfhnEjpJysI45jK1rwSkuI9pFSnv

pkeough1.bsky.social•73 days ago

excommunicate his ass

thedogfather6.bsky.social•73 days ago

https://musingsofanobodyweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/a-terrifying-scenario-democratic-backbone-and-the-pope/

mcmikespigget.bsky.social•73 days ago

He says from behind his walled city.

autiebea.bsky.social•73 days ago

i looked it up. jim dave became a catholic exactly 5 years and 6 months ago. and the pope just told him to sit the fuck down. 🤣

ellenbreezely.bsky.social•73 days ago

Far right catholics hate this pope.

atriana.bsky.social•73 days ago

Yea, they're showing their true colors. They don't consider him legit which makes them actual non-Catholic.

kellieoz.bsky.social•73 days ago

Cue Trump's overnight name-calling tirade of the Pope!

bmt1895.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance is involved in the Opus Dei - far-right Catholic cult.

yvettejr718.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance supposedly converted to Catholicism. He proceeded to criticize the POPE. That’s a big no-no. Vance comes across as such a pompous, arrogant, stuck up, self aggrandizing, ASS!

jefflockard.bsky.social•73 days ago

JD Vance is a DEI hire… Opus Dei, that is.

petuniatoes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Francis can excommunicate him. That would be interesting and I wouldn’t put it past him to do it.

bookofmudora.bsky.social•73 days ago

He's an awful Catholic. He doesn't even stick to the beatitudes.

vvaenels.bsky.social•73 days ago

Oh to have the arrogance of a mediocre white man …. going after DEI when he’s the least qualified VPOTUS of this century (ever?)

ebognacki.bsky.social•73 days ago

As a former Roman Catholic priest, I would trust the explanation of the “order of love” by Francis over the blathering of a degenerate Vice President. Vance threw his family under the bus, preferring to support a high schooler who hates folks from India.

crosetti.bsky.social•73 days ago

Vance genuinely appears to be someone who is struggling with more personal issues than the public (and maybe even family & close associates) are aware of.

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