{"id":196746,"date":"2026-04-14T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:54:19","slug":"vance-says-pope-should-stay-out-of-u-s-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196746\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Says Pope Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Vance Says Pope Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Vance Says Pope Should Stay Out of U.S. AffairsVice President JD Vance weighed in on the tension between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV as Catholics expressed dismay about Mr. Trump\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of, you know, what\u2019s going on in the Catholic Church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing. And I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace.\u201d \u201cPope Leo said things that are wrong. There\u2019s nothing to apologize for. He\u2019s wrong.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not a big fan of Pope Leo. He\u2019s a very liberal person. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s doing a very good job.\u201d \u201cI did post it, and I thought it was me as a doctor, and it had to do with the Red Cross. There\u2019s a Red Cross worker there, which we support.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s gross. It\u2019s blasphemous.\u201d \u201cI stand with the pope. I mean, the pope speaks the Gospel. He speaks for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Leo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/13nat-trump-catholic-reax-lctq-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the tension between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV as Catholics expressed dismay about Mr. Trump\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n<p>By Shawn Paik<\/p>\n<p>April 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Vance Says Pope Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs transcript Back transcript Vance Says Pope&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4840,153,14670,12618,78395,9,11,10,28581,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-196746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-catholic-church","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-j-d-vance","12":"tag-leo-xiv","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-pope","17":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}