{"id":82141,"date":"2026-04-15T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82141"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:02:12","slug":"vance-corrects-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vance-corrects-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance &#8216;Corrects&#8217; Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Vice President JD Vance invoked World War II on Tuesday to defend the U.S. bombing of Iran from criticism by Pope Leo XIV, extending the Trump administration\u2019s spat with the Catholic Church and underlining the White House\u2019s struggle to justify an unpopular war.\u00a0Mr. Vance, who is Catholic, told a conservative audience at the University of Georgia that the pope was wrong to\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pontifex\/status\/2042588417578668338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">say<\/a> that disciples of Christ are \u201cnever on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.\u201d <em>[scroll for more:]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- spiritdaily.org --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6350947343102800\" data-ad-slot=\"9237292177\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cWas God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?\u201d Mr. Vance said after referring to the pope\u2019s comment. \u201cI certainly think the answer is yes.\u201d\u00a0President Trump has appeared stung by Leo\u2019s condemnation of the war, criticism that has highlighted the challenge the administration faces from the coalition of conservative and religious voters who helped elect Mr. Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776243732\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Vance &#8216;Corrects&#8217; Pope\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Vice President JD Vance invoked World War II on Tuesday to defend the U.S. bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82142,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82141\/revisions\/82142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}