Vans meet with Pope Francis on Sunday after intertwining severe migration

A spokesman for the vice president said at a rare meeting after the two men held that Vice President GD Vans met Pope Francis in the Vatican on Sunday Tangled The Trump administration plans to collectively deport migrants.

Francis has made migrant care a distinctive feature of his door and progressive views on social justice issues often put him unlikely with members of the most conservative Catholic Church.

Francis also changed the teaching of the Church to say that the death penalty is unacceptable in all cases.

Meanwhile, Vans defended the first American administration campaign by referring to a concept of Catholic theology in the Middle Ages known as Latin as “Ordo Amoris”. He said that the concept determines the sponsorship sequence – for the family first, followed by the neighbor, society and its citizens and finally in another place.

In a letter on February 10, Francis seemed to correct the understanding of Vans for the concept.

“Christian love is not a concentrated expansion in interests, which extends little by little to people and other groups.” “The real Ordo Amoris that must be promoted is what we discovered by constantly contemplating the example of” the good Samaritan “, that is, by contemplating the love that builds brothers open to all, without exception.”

Vans has Francis’s criticism admitted But he said he would continue to defend his views. During the appearance of February 28 at the Iftar of the National Catholic Prayer in Washington, Vans did not specifically deal with the issue, but he called himself a “Catholic Child” and confessed to the existence of “things about the faith that I do not know.”

Vans was spending the Easter holiday in Rome with his family and attended the great Friday services in Saint Peter Basilica after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giojia Miloni. On Saturday, The Fances got a special tour of the Sistine Church, and met the second Vice President in Vatican.

The Holy See confirmed good relations with Vans after the Saturday meeting, but he pointed to “exchanging opinions” on current international conflicts, migrants and prisoners.

The Vatican stated that Vans, who turned to Catholicism in 2019, met with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cardinal Petro Parolin, and bishops, Paul Gallagher.

The Apostolic Chair has responded with caution to the Trump administration, while keeping up with the traditions of diplomatic neutrality, expressing his warning of the administration’s campaign against immigrants and wounds in international aid.

These fears were reflected in the Vatican statement on Saturday, which said that the talks were friendly and that they expressed their satisfaction with the administration’s commitment to protect freedom of religion and conscience.

“There was an exchange of opinions on the international situation, especially with regard to countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with special attention to immigrants, refugees and prisoners,” the statement said. “Finally, hope for calm cooperation between the state and the Catholic Church in the United States, whose valuable service was recognized for the most vulnerable people.”

The reference to “calm cooperation” seemed to indicate that Vans accused that the American Catholic Bishop’s Conference was Resettlement of “illegal immigrants” For federal financing. He pushed the Cardinals in the United States strongly against the claim.

“It is clear that the current American administration’s approach is very different from what we are used to, especially in the West, which we have relied on for many years,” said Paroline Los Angeles Daily on the eve of Vans’s visit.

The Vice President’s office stressed the meeting between Vans and Maroulain, saying that they “discussed their common religious and Catholic faith in the United States, the plight of persecuted Christian societies around the world, and President Trump’s commitment to restore world peace.”

There was no mention of the details provided by the Vatican.

Christine Brown

He contributed to this report.