Pope Leo XIV shared social media critical of Trump, Vance

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Pope Leo XIV shared social media critical of Trump, Vance

WASHINGTON — Before being elected pope May 8, Pope Leo XIV shared social media posts criticizing President

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‘s and Vice President

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‘s stances on immigration.

In three posts, then Cardinal Robert Prevost was critical of Vance’s take on religion, posted article critiquing Vance’s statements on deportation of migrants and

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and President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele’s response to the deportation to El Salvadorian national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland.

One,

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, pointed to an article in the National Catholic Reporter titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

A screenshot of an X post by Cardinal Robert Prevost, elected Pope on May 8, 2025, who shared an opinion column from the National Catholic Reporter about Vice President J.D. Vance on Feb. 3, 2025.

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, had cited medieval-era Catholic teaching to justify the United State’s new immigration policy under Trump

Leo’s predecessor

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rebutted the theological concept Vance used to defend the crackdown in 

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 to the U.S. Catholic bishops about the Trump administration in February.

The new pontiff largely avoided posting to the account in 2024, but posted hundreds of times since 2011 in English and Spanish

In 2015, he posted a link to Washington Post opinion piece titled “Cardinal Dolan: Why

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’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is so problematic.”

Francis clashed repeatedly with Trump and Vance, particularly over the administration’s immigration policies. He was critical of their plans to deport millions of migrants from the U.S., as well as widespread cuts to foreign aid and domestic ******** programs.

Vance was one of the last officials to see Francis before his death. Francis hosted Vance at the ******** a day before his death.

Neither the White House nor Vance’s office immediately responded to a request for comment on the ex-cardinal’s previous tweets. Trump in a post on Truth Social had

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the first-ever election of an American as pontiff.

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