The National Catholic Reporter published a damning op-ed this week accusing Vice President J.D. Vance of choosing “MAGA over Jesus.”
In the article, John Grosso, the Catholic newspaper’s digital editor, condemned Vance’s inflammatory and politicized response to the weekend killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.
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Grosso said Vance “had the opportunity to call for peace and unity — to lower the temperature of the situation and show compassion for those who are suffering and mourning” and “could have chosen to share a gospel message of healing and human dignity,” but “instead, he chose to offer a MAGA message of division and accusation.”
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The National Catholic Reporter published a damning op-ed this week accusing Vice President J.D. Vance of choosing “MAGA over Jesus.” Bloomberg via Getty Images
Grosso said the comments by Vance, who converted to Catholicism, “are a moral stain on our collective witness to Catholicism.” But “they’re no longer surprising,” he argued. “Given its scandals, the Vice President’s cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be reviled by those of the faith.”
Grosso made similarly fiery comments about Vance earlier this month as the vice president defended the death of his mother, Renee Good, who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
“As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this kind of gaslighting and demagoguery,” Grosso wrote in the article, which also condemned Vance’s “twisted and erroneous view of Christianity” and suggested that his “Catholicism appears to be nothing more than a political crutch, a vehicle for his professional ambitions and desire for power.”
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