A debate over ordo amoris and politics recently played out between U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Pope Francis through published statements. Should leaders prioritize love or fairness? Jesuit theologian Jean-Marie Carrière challenges the rhetoric of exclusion.

US VP JD Vance has taken to social media to offer his support for Pope Francis, who is currently battling health issues after the religious leader was hospitalized last week

J.D. Vance has really done Ohio proud these last few weeks, hasn’t he? The lapdog vice-president, with evidently a lot of time on his hands, has managed to be firmly rebuked by Pope Francis, denounced by outraged NATO allies and widely ridiculed for his bizarre ‘masculinity’ rant at a weekend MAGAfest just a month into

Pope Francis didn't call out J.D. Vance by name, but suggested that Vance's interpretation of Catholic beliefs was not really correct.

The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.

The Good Samaritan parable tells of a Jewish man left beaten and bloodied, barely alive, on the side of a road. While a Jewish priest walks past him, a Samaritan—an enemy of the Jews—comes to his aid. Vance couldn’t be further off from the Bible’s original message.

His recently released autobiography, ‘Hope’, shows a zest for inclusion and diversity that long predates his papacy. It also reveals an extraordinary sense of humour. Importantly, he walks his talk.

In a recent letter to the U.S. bishops in which he expressed concern over President Donald Trump’s “program of mass deportations,” Pope Francis also appeared to criticize Vice President JD Vance’s use of the Catholic term “ordo amoris” in the ...

Pope Francis directly and sharply responded in a letter to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, who had asserted that charity should be directed primarily toward one’s own people, invoking the concept of Ordo amoris.