MAGA on Jesus: JD Vance receives damning moral rebuke from Catholic newspaper
Vice President JD Vance was accused of choosing “MAGA over Jesus” in a damning op-ed published by the National Catholic Reporter this week.
In the article, the Catholic newspaper’s digital editor, John Grosso, rebuked Vance’s incendiary and politicizing response to the murder of ICU nurse Alex Pretti at the hands of a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis over the weekend.
Read the full op-ed in the National Catholic Reporter.
Vance, Grosso said, had “the opportunity to call for peace and unity, to lower the temperature of the situation, and to express empathy with those who are suffering and mourning” and “could have chosen to share the Gospel message of healing and human dignity,” but “instead, he chose to offer the MAGA message of division and blame.”
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The comments by Vance, a converted Catholic, are “a moral stain on our collective witness to Catholicism,” Grosso said. But “they are no longer surprising,” he argued. “In the face of his scandal, the vice president’s cafeteria Catholicism must continue to be repudiated by people of faith.”
Grosso posted a similarly scathing comment about Vance following the vice president’s justification of the shooting death of his mother Renee Good, also at the hands of a federal agent in Minneapolis, earlier this month.
“As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this kind of agitation and deception,” Grosso wrote in that article, in which he also condemned Vance’s “twisted and misguided view of Christianity” and suggested that his “Catholicism appears to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his professional ambitions and desire for power.”